11:1 It happened that while ①Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
▷ ①Lit He
11:2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say:
‘ ①Father, ②hallowed be Your name.
③Your kingdom come.
▷ ①Later mss add phrases from Matt 6:9-13 to make the two passages closely similar ②I.e., treated as sacred or holy ③Or May Your...come
11:3 Give us each day our ①daily bread.
▷ ①Or bread for the coming day; or needful bread
11:4 And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And do not lead us into temptation.’ ”
11:5 And He said to them, “ ①Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
▷ ①Lit Which one of you will have...and will go
11:6 because a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to serve him’;
11:7 and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children ①and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’
▷ ①Lit are with me
11:8 I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him anything just because he is his friend, yet because of his ①shamelessness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
▷ ①Prob. by continued knocking
11:9 “So I say to you, ①ask, and it will be given to you; ②seek, and you will find; ③knock, and it will be opened to you.
▷ ①Or keep asking ②Or keep seeking ③Or keep knocking
11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be opened.
11:11 Now ①which one of you fathers will his son ask for a ②fish, and instead of a fish, he will give him a snake?
▷ ①Lit which of you, the father, will the son ask ②One early ms inserts loaf, he will not give him a stone, will he, or for a
11:12 Or he will even ask for an egg, and his father will give him a scorpion?
11:13 So if you, despite being ①evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will ②your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
▷ ①I.e., as sinful mankind ②Lit the Father from heaven
11:14 And He was casting out a mute demon; when the demon had gone out, the man who was previously unable to speak talked, and the crowds were amazed.
11:15 But some of them said, “He casts out the demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
11:16 Others, ①to test Him, were demanding of Him a ②sign from heaven.
▷ ①Lit testing ②I.e., confirming miracle
11:17 But He knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against ①itself falls.
▷ ①Lit a house
11:18 And if Satan also has been divided against himself, how will his kingdom ①stand? For you claim that I cast out the demons by Beelzebul.
▷ ①I.e., remain stable
11:19 Yet if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.
11:20 But if I cast out the demons by ①the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
▷ ①I.e., an undeniable act of God
11:21 When ①a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are ②secure.
▷ ①Lit the ②Lit in peace
11:22 But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, that man takes away his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder.
11:23 The one who is not with Me is against Me; and the one who does not gather with Me scatters.
11:24 “When the unclean spirit comes out of ①a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it then says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
▷ ①Lit the
11:25 And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.
11:26 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first.”
11:27 While ①Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts at which You nursed!”
▷ ①Lit He
11:28 But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it.”
11:29 Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it demands a ①sign, and so no ②sign will be given to it except the ③sign of Jonah.
▷ ①I.e., confirming miracle ②I.e., confirming miracle ③I.e., confirming miracle
11:30 For just as Jonah became a ①sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
▷ ①I.e., confirming miracle
11:31 The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
11:32 The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
11:33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
11:34 Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is ①clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is ②bad, your body also is full of darkness.
▷ ①Or healthy ②Or evil
11:35 So watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
11:36 Therefore if your whole body is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light.”
11:37 Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in and reclined at the table.
11:38 When the Pharisee saw this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first ①ceremonially washed before the ②meal.
▷ ①Lit baptized; here, immersed the hands ②Or lunch
11:39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish; but your inside is full of greed and wickedness.
11:40 You foolish ones, did He who made the outside not make the inside also?
11:41 But give that which is within as a charitable gift, and ①then all things are clean for you.
▷ ①Lit behold
11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ①ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
▷ ①Or neglect
11:43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces.
11:44 Woe to you! For you are like ①unseen tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”
▷ ①I.e., unmarked
11:45 One of the ①lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us too.”
▷ ①I.e., experts in the Mosaic Law
11:46 But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, ①while you yourselves will not even ②touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
▷ ①Lit and ②I.e., to assist them
11:47 Woe to you! For you build the ①tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
▷ ①Or monuments to
11:48 So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their ①tombs.
▷ ①Or monuments
11:49 For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will ①persecute,
▷ ①Or drive out
11:50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged ①against this generation,
▷ ①Or to
11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged ①against this generation.’
▷ ①Or to
11:52 Woe to you ①lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”
▷ ①I.e., experts in the Mosaic Law
11:53 When He left that place, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to interrogate Him about many subjects,
11:54 plotting against Him to catch ①Him in something He might say.
▷ ①Lit something out of His mouth