Luke 11

1 When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” ‡ Psa 19:14Rom 8:26-27Jud 1:20Luk 22:39-45Luk 6:12Luk 9:18Jas 4:2-3Luk 9:28 +2

2 He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‡ Mat 6:6-15Ecc 5:2Psa 72:18-19Rev 15:41Th 3:11-132Ch 20:6Psa 11:4Rev 20:4 +36

‘Our Father in heaven,

may your name be kept holy.

May your Kingdom come.

May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

3 Give us day by day our daily bread. ‡ Mat 6:11Mat 6:34Pro 30:8Exo 16:15-22Isa 33:16Jhn 6:27-33

4 Forgive us our sins, ‡ Mat 6:12-15Mat 26:412Th 3:3Col 3:13Isa 43:25-26Mat 18:352Ti 4:18Jas 2:13 +21

for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

Bring us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.’”

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, ‡ Luk 18:1-8 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ 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’? ‡ Gal 6:17Luk 13:25Luk 7:6Mat 25:10 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. ‡ Gen 32:26Col 4:12Luk 18:1-8Rom 15:30Mat 15:22-282Co 12:8Col 2:1

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. ‡ Mrk 11:24Jhn 16:23-24Mat 21:22Jhn 15:16Jhn 15:71Jn 5:14-15Jhn 14:131Jn 3:22 +3110 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ‡ Jas 4:3Lam 3:18Lam 3:54-58Jas 5:11Jon 2:2-8Luk 18:1Psa 31:22Lam 3:8

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? ‡ Mat 7:9Isa 49:15 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? ‡ Ezk 2:6Luk 10:19Rev 9:10 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” ‡ Mat 7:11Isa 44:3-4Rom 8:32Jhn 4:10Pro 1:23Act 2:38Jhn 7:37-39Jol 2:28 +20

14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled. ‡ Mat 12:22-24Mat 9:32-34Mrk 7:32-37 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.” ‡ Mat 9:34Jhn 10:20Jhn 7:20Jhn 8:48Jhn 8:52Luk 11:18-19Mat 10:25Mat 12:24-30 +116 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. ‡ 1Co 1:22Jhn 6:30Mat 12:38-39Mat 16:1-4Mrk 8:11-12 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. ‡ Mrk 3:23-27Mat 12:25-29Isa 19:2-3Isa 9:20-21Jhn 2:252Ch 10:16-192Ch 13:16-17Mat 9:4 +118 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. ‡ Mat 12:26Mat 12:31-34Jas 3:5-8Luk 11:15Mat 4:10 19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. ‡ Luk 9:49Job 15:6Luk 11:31-32Luk 19:22Mat 12:27-28Mat 12:41-42Rom 3:19 20 But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you. ‡ Exo 8:19Mat 12:28Luk 10:9Mat 3:22Th 1:5Luk 10:11Act 20:25Dan 2:44 +1

21 “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. ‡ Mrk 3:27Mat 12:29 22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. ‡ Isa 49:24-25Isa 53:121Jn 3:81Jn 4:4Col 2:15Gen 3:15Isa 27:1Isa 63:1-4 +1

23 “He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. ‡ Mat 12:30Luk 9:50Mrk 9:40Rev 3:15-16

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.’ ‡ Mat 12:43-451Pe 5:8Job 2:2Psa 63:1Job 1:7Mrk 5:10Eph 2:2Isa 44:3 +925 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. ‡ 2Pe 2:10-192Th 2:9-12Jud 1:8-13Mat 12:44-45Psa 36:3Psa 81:11-122Ch 24:17-22Psa 125:5 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.” ‡ 2Pe 2:20-22Jhn 5:14Mat 12:45Zep 1:61Jn 5:16Heb 10:26-31Heb 6:4-8Jud 1:12-13 +1

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!” ‡ Luk 1:42Luk 1:48Luk 23:29Luk 1:28

28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.” ‡ Luk 6:47-48Luk 8:21Psa 112:1Jas 1:21-25Jhn 13:17Isa 48:17-18Psa 1:1-31Jn 3:21-24 +5

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 Jonah the prophet. ‡ Luk 11:16Mrk 8:11-121Co 1:22Mat 12:38-42Luk 12:1Mat 3:7Mrk 8:38Act 7:51-52 +930 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation. ‡ Mat 12:40-42Jon 3:2-10Jon 1:17Luk 24:46-47Jon 2:10 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 earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. ‡ 2Ch 9:11Ki 10:1-13Jer 3:11Luk 3:22Rom 2:27Luk 9:35Mat 12:42Heb 11:7 +332 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here. ‡ Jon 3:5Heb 7:26Jon 1:2-3Jon 4:9Luk 11:31

33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. ‡ Luk 8:16-17Mrk 4:21-22Mat 5:15-16Jhn 12:46Php 2:15-16Jhn 11:9Mat 10:27 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. ‡ Mat 6:22-23Act 26:182Co 4:4Jer 5:21Psa 119:18Rom 11:8-10Col 3:222Co 11:3 +1735 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. ‡ Pro 16:252Pe 1:9Jas 3:13-171Co 1:19-211Co 3:18-20Isa 5:20-21Rev 3:17Rom 1:22 +636 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.” ‡ Pro 20:27Pro 4:18-19Pro 6:232Co 4:62Pe 3:182Ti 3:15-17Pro 1:5Col 3:16 +11

37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table. ‡ Luk 7:361Co 9:19-23Luk 14:1 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. ‡ Mat 15:2-3Jhn 3:25Mrk 7:2-5 39 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. ‡ Tit 1:15Gen 6:5Luk 16:15Mat 7:15Pro 30:12Act 5:3Act 8:21-23Jas 4:8 +1640 You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? ‡ Luk 12:201Co 15:36Mat 23:17Mat 23:26Pro 1:22Pro 8:5Psa 94:8-9Gen 1:26 +941 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. ‡ Luk 12:33Jas 1:27Tit 1:15Act 10:15Heb 13:16Luk 16:92Co 8:7-9Dan 4:27 +2742 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. ‡ Mat 23:23Luk 18:12Pro 21:31Jn 4:20Deu 10:12-13Mal 3:8Mic 6:81Sa 15:22 +1443 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. ‡ Luk 20:46Mrk 12:38-39Luk 14:7-11Mat 23:6-73Jn 1:9Jas 2:2-4Php 2:3Pro 16:18 +144 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.” ‡ Mat 23:27-28Act 23:3Psa 5:9Num 19:16Hos 9:8

45 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.” ‡ Jhn 9:40Mat 22:351Ki 22:8Amo 7:10-13Jer 20:8Jer 6:10Jhn 7:48Jhn 7:7 +2

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. ‡ Mat 23:2-4Isa 10:1Luk 11:52Gal 6:13Luk 11:45Isa 58:6 47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ‡ 1Th 2:15Act 7:51Mat 23:29-33 48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. ‡ 2Ch 36:16Jas 5:10Act 7:51-52Mat 21:35-38Mat 23:31Heb 11:35-38Ezk 18:19Jos 24:22 +249 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, ‡ 1Co 1:30Col 2:3Eph 4:111Co 1:24Act 22:20Act 7:57Act 8:3Act 9:1-2 +1350 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, ‡ Gen 9:5-62Ki 24:4Rev 18:20-24Num 35:33Isa 26:21Jer 51:56Jer 7:29Psa 9:12 +151 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. ‡ 2Ch 24:20-22Heb 11:4Mat 23:351Jn 3:12Gen 4:8-11Zec 1:1Heb 12:24Jer 7:28 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.” ‡ Mat 23:13Mal 2:7Act 4:17-18Luk 11:45-46Jhn 9:24-34Jhn 7:47-52Act 5:40Luk 19:39-40

53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him, ‡ 1Co 13:5Isa 9:12Jer 18:18Jer 20:10Luk 20:20Luk 20:27Psa 22:12-13 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him. ‡ Mrk 12:13Mat 22:15Mat 22:35Luk 20:20Mat 22:18Psa 37:32-33Psa 56:5-6Mrk 3:2