The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 11
{11:1} It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain
place, one of his [1>]talmidim[<1] said to him, "Lord, teach us to
pray, just as Yochanan also taught his [2>]talmidim[<2]."
{11:2} He said to them, "When you pray, say,
'Our Father in heaven,
May your name be kept holy.
May your kingdom come.
May your will be done on [3>]Eretz[<3], as it is in heaven.
{11:3} Give us day by day our daily bread.
{11:4} Forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
Bring us not into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.'"
{11:5} He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at
midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, {11:6}
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing
to set before him,' {11:7} and he from within will answer and say,
'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in
bed. I can't get up and give it to you'? {11:8} I tell you, although
he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet
because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he
needs.
{11:9} "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep
seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to
you. {11:10} For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To
him who knocks it will be opened.
{11:11} "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give
him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake
instead of a fish, will he? {11:12} Or if he asks for an egg, he won't
give him a scorpion, will he? {11:13} If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
heavenly Father give the [4>]Ruach HaKodesh[<4] to those who ask him?"
{11:14} He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened,
when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes
marveled. {11:15} But some of them said, "He casts out demons by
Ba`al-Zibbul, the prince of the demons." {11:16} Others, testing him,
sought from him a sign from heaven. {11:17} But he, knowing their
thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is
brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. {11:18}
If Hasatan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom
stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul. {11:19} But
if I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul, by whom do your sons cast them
out? Therefore will they be your judges. {11:20} But if I by the
finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
{11:21} "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling,
his goods are safe. {11:22} But when someone stronger attacks him and
overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted,
and divides his spoils.
{11:23} "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather
with me scatters. {11:24} The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of
the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he
says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.' {11:25}
When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. {11:26} Then he
goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they
enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse
than the first."
{11:27} It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman
out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is
the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
{11:28} But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear
the word of God, and keep it."
{11:29} When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began
to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign
will be given to it but the sign of Yonah, the prophet. {11:30} For
even as Yonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of
Man be to this generation. {11:31} The Queen of the South will rise up
in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn
them: for she came from the ends of the [5>]eretz[<5] to hear the
wisdom of Shlomo; and behold, one greater than Shlomo is here. {11:32}
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation,
and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and
behold, one greater than Yonah is here.
{11:33} "No man, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar, nor
under a basket, but on a stand, that those who enter in may see the
light. {11:34} The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your
eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is
evil, your body also is full of darkness. {11:35} Therefore see
whether the light that is in you isn't darkness. {11:36} If therefore
your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be
wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives
you light."
{11:37} Now as he spoke, a certain Parush asked him to dine with
him. He went in, and sat at the table. {11:38} When the Parush saw it,
he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
{11:39} The Lord said to him, "Now you Perushim cleanse the outside of
the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion
and wickedness. {11:40} You foolish ones, didn't he who made the
outside make the inside also? {11:41} But give for gifts to the needy
those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to
you. {11:42} But woe to you Perushim! For you tithe mint and rue and
every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to
have done these, and not to have left the other undone. {11:43} Woe to
you Perushim! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the
greetings in the marketplaces. {11:44} Woe to you, [6>]Sofrim[<6] and
Perushim, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who
walk over them don't know it."
{11:45} One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this
you insult us also."
{11:46} He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with
burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even
lift one finger to help carry those burdens. {11:47} Woe to you! For
you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
{11:48} So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For
they killed them, and you build their tombs. {11:49} Therefore also
the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles;
and some of them they will kill and persecute, {11:50} that the blood
of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation; {11:51} from the blood of Hevel to
the blood of Zekharyah, who perished between the altar and the
sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
{11:52} Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge.
You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you
hindered."
{11:53} As he said these things to them, the [7>]Sofrim[<7] and the
Perushim began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of
him; {11:54} lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in
something he might say, that they might accuse him.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:1} disciples
[2] {11:1} disciples
[3] {11:2} Earth
[4] {11:13} Holy Spirit
[5] {11:31} earth
[6] {11:44} scribes
[7] {11:53} scribes
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