Luke 11

The Lord’s Prayer

1He was praying # 11:1 Lk 3:21 in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” # 11:1 Lk 5:33

2He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say, # 11:2–13 Mt 6:9–13

Father, # 11:2 Other mss read Our Father in heaven,# 11:2 Jn 20:17; 1Pt 1:17

your name # 11:2 Ps 9:10; Jn 10:25; 17:6 be honored as holy. # 11:2 Is 29:23; Lk 1:49; 1Pt 3:15

Your kingdom come. # 11:2 Other mss add Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,# 11:2 Mk 9:1

3 Give us each day our daily bread. # 11:3 Or our bread for tomorrow,# 11:3 Pr 30:8

4 And forgive us our sins, # 11:4 Lk 6:12; 7:48; 24:47

for we ourselves also forgive everyone

in debt to us. # 11:4 Or everyone who wrongs us,# 11:4 Mt 18:23–35

And do not bring us into temptation.” # 11:4 Other mss add But deliver us from the evil one,# 11:4 Mt 26:41; Lk 4:13; 22:40,46; 1Co 10:13

Ask, Search, Knock

5He also said to them, “Suppose one of you # 11:5 Lit Who of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’ 7Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’ 8I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness, # 11:8 Or persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs. # 11:8 Lk 18:1–6

9 “So # 11:9–13 Mt 7:7–11; Jn 14:13–14; 15:7; 16:24 I say to you, ask, # 11:9 Mt 18:19; 21:22; Mk 11:24; Jms 1:5–6,17; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14–15 and it will be given to you. Seek, # 11:9 Dt 4:29; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Pr 8:17; Is 55:6; Jr 29:13 and you will find. Knock, # 11:9 Lk 11:10; 12:36; 13:25; Ac 12:13,16; Rv 3:20 and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 11What father among you, if his son # 11:11 Other mss read son asks for bread, would give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, who are evil, # 11:13 Rm 12:17; 1Th 5:22; 2Tm 3:13 know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father # 11:13 Mt 5:48 give the Holy Spirit # 11:13 Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4,38; Rm 8:9 to those who ask him? ”

A House Divided

14Now # 11:14–23 Mt 9:32–34; 12:22–30; Mk 3:22–27; Jn 7:20; 8:48,52; 10:20 he was driving out a demon # 11:14 Mk 7:26 that was mute. # 11:14 Mk 7:37; 9:15–25; Lk 7:22 When the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed. 15But some of them said, “He drives out demons by Beelzebul, # 11:15 2Kg 1:2; Mt 10:25 the ruler # 11:15 Lk 12:58 of the demons.” # 11:15 Jn 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; Eph 2:2 16And others, as a test, # 11:16 Lk 10:25 were demanding of him a sign # 11:16 Jn 2:11; 8:6 from heaven.

17Knowing their thoughts, # 11:17 Lk 5:22; Php 2:6 he told them, “Every kingdom divided # 11:17 Dn 5:28; 11:4; Lk 12:52–53 against itself is headed for destruction, and a house divided against itself falls. 18If Satan # 11:18 Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10 also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom # 11:18 Lk 4:5 stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul. 19And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons # 11:19 Gl 3:7; 1Pt 5:13 drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges. 20If I drive out demons by the finger of God, # 11:20 Ex 8:19; 31:18; Dt 9:10; Ps 8:3 then the kingdom of God # 11:20 Mt 19:24; 21:31,43; Lk 17:21 has come upon you. 21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure. 22But when one stronger than he attacks and overpowers # 11:22 Jn 16:33; 1Jn 2:13 him, he takes from him all his weapons # 11:22 Gk panoplia, the armor and weapons of a foot soldier; Eph 6:11,13,# 11:22 Eph 6:11,13 he trusted # 11:22 Ac 26:28 in, and divides up his plunder. # 11:22 Is 49:24–26 23Anyone who is not with me is against me, # 11:23 Mk 9:40; Lk 9:50 and anyone who does not gather with me scatters.

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

24 “When # 11:24–26 Mt 12:43–45 an unclean spirit # 11:24 Mk 1:23–27; Lk 8:29; 9:42; Rv 18:2 comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest, # 11:24 Mt 11:29; Rv 4:8; 14:11 and not finding rest, it then # 11:24 Other mss omit then says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ 25Returning, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits # 11:26 Lv 26:18–28; Dt 7:1; Pr 6:31; 26:25; Lk 8:2 more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first.” # 11:26 Jn 5:14; 2Pt 2:20–22

True Blessedness

27As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd # 11:27 Lk 12:3 raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you! ” # 11:27 Lk 1:48; 23:29

28He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God # 11:28 Lk 5:1; 8:21; Ac 13:7 and keep it.” # 11:28 Lv 22:31; Jn 13:17; Jms 1:22; Rv 1:3; 22:7

The Sign of Jonah

29As the crowds were increasing, he began saying, “This generation # 11:29 Lk 7:31; 17:25; 21:32 is an evil generation. # 11:29–32 Mt 12:39–42; Mk 8:12 It demands a sign, # 11:29 Lk 11:16 but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. # 11:29 Other mss add the prophet,# 11:29 Jnh 1:1–4:9; Mt 16:4 30For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man # 11:30 Mk 2:10; Lk 5:24 will be to this generation. 31The queen of the south # 11:31 1Kg 10:1; 2Ch 9:1 will rise up at the judgment # 11:31 Lk 10:14 with the men of this generation and condemn # 11:31 Heb 11:7 them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, # 11:31 1Kg 4:34; Pr 1:1 and look — something greater than Solomon is here. 32The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look — something greater than Jonah is here.

The Lamp of the Body

33 “No # 11:33 Mt 5:15; Mk 4:21 one lights a lamp # 11:33 Lk 8:16 and puts it in the cellar or under a basket, # 11:33 Other mss omit or under a basket but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light. 34Your eye is the lamp of the body. # 11:34–36 Mt 6:22–23 When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, # 11:34 Jr 24:8; Mt 7:17 your body is also full of darkness. 35Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness. 36If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

Religious Hypocrisy Denounced

37As he was speaking, a Pharisee # 11:37 Lk 7:36 asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table. 38When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing # 11:38 Lit he did not first wash,# 11:38 Heb 6:2 before dinner. # 11:38 Mt 15:2; Mk 7:2–5 39But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed # 11:39 Mt 23:25; Lk 12:20; 16:14; Heb 10:34 and evil. # 11:39 Mk 7:22 40Fools! # 11:40 Mt 23:17; Lk 12:20 Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? 41But give from what is within to the poor, # 11:41 Or But donate from the heart as charity,# 11:41 Lk 12:33; Ac 24:17 and then everything is clean # 11:41 Ps 24:4; Ti 1:15 for you.

42 “But woe # 11:42 Lk 10:13 to you Pharisees! You give a tenth # 11:42 Or a tithe,# 11:42 Dt 14:22; Lk 18:12 of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass # 11:42 Or neglect justice # 11:42 Mc 6:8; Zch 7:9; Mt 12:18,20; Jn 7:24; Ac 8:33 and love for God. # 11:42 Lit the justice and the love of God,# 11:42 Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27; Jn 5:42; 2Th 3:5 These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

43 “Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat # 11:43 Mt 23:6; Mk 12:39; Lk 20:46 in the synagogues # 11:43 Jms 2:2 and greetings in the marketplaces.

44 “Woe to you! # 11:44 Other mss add scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unmarked graves; # 11:44 Mt 23:27 the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

45One of the experts in the law # 11:45 Lk 7:30 answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

46Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens # 11:46 Mt 23:4; Ac 27:10; Gl 6:5 that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers. # 11:46 Mt 11:28–30; Ac 15:10

47 “Woe to you! You build tombs # 11:47 Or graves for the prophets, # 11:47 Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52 and your fathers killed # 11:47 Lk 20:15 them. 48Therefore, you are witnesses # 11:48 Mt 23:31 that you approve # 11:48 Lit witnesses and approve,# 11:48 Ac 22:20; Rm 1:32 the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments. # 11:48 Other mss omit their monuments 49Because of this, the wisdom of God # 11:49 Pr 1:20–33; 8:1–36; Mt 23:34 said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, # 11:49 Lk 11:27; 13:1; 15:32; 21:9–10; Jn 13:16; Ac 1:2 and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ # 11:49 1Th 2:15; 2Tm 3:12 50so that this generation # 11:50 Lk 11:29 may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world # 11:50 Lit so that the blood of all . . . world may be required of this generation,,# 11:50 Heb 9:26; Rv 18:24 — 51from the blood of Abel # 11:51 Gn 4:9–10; Heb 12:24; 1Jn 3:12 to the blood of Zechariah, # 11:51 2Ch 24:20–22 who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible. # 11:51 Lit you, it will be required of this generation

52 “Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. # 11:52 1Co 14:6 You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered # 11:52 1Co 14:39 those who were trying to go in.”

53When he left there, # 11:53 Other mss read And as he was saying these things to them the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose # 11:53 Mk 6:19; Gl 5:1 him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things; 54they were lying in wait # 11:54 Ac 23:21 for him to trap him in something he said. # 11:54 Other mss add so that they might bring charges against him,# 11:54 Is 29:21; Mt 22:15; Mk 3:2; 12:13; Lk 20:20; Jn 8:6

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Lukas 11

1And it came about while he was in a certain place davening that, when he concluded, a certain one of his talmidim said to him, Adoneinu, teach us to daven, just as also Yochanan taught his talmidim. 2And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you daven, say, Avinu, yitkadash shmecha (hallowed be Thy Name). Tavo malchutechah (Thy kingdom come). 3Es lechem chukeinu ten lanu yom yom (Give us day by day the bread we need). 4U slach lanu es chovoteinu (And forgive us our debts, sins) ki solechim gam anachnu lekhol hachayav lanu (for also we ourselves are forgiving all that are the debtor to us) val tevieinu lidei nisayon (And lead us not into temptation).

5And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Who among you will have a chaver and will come to him at chatzot halailah (midnight), and say to him, Chaver, lend me shalosh kikrot (loaves); 6Because a chaver of mine has come from a journey to me and I have nothing to set before him; 7And from inside he shall reply, saying, Do not bother me; the delet has already been shut, and my yeladim and I are already in bed; I cannot get up and give to you anything. 8I say to you, even if he will not get up and give him anything, because he is his chaver, at least because of his keseder (constantly) persistent importunity he will get up and give to him as much as he needs. 9And I tell you [when you daven], ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. 10For everyone asking receives; and he who is seeking, finds; and to the one knocking, it shall be opened. 11And what Abba among you is there who, if his ben asks for a dag (fish), instead of a dag (fish) will give to him a nachash (snake)? 12Or if the ben will ask for a beytzah (egg), will the av give him an akrav (scorpion)? 13If, therefore, you, though you are ra'im (evil ones), have da'as (knowledge) of how to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more will HaAv sh'ba'Shomayim give the Ruach Hakodesh to the ones asking him.

14And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was casting out a shed from an ish illem (mute man). And it came to pass when the shed had come out, the ish illem spoke, and the multitudes were amazed. 15But some of them said, He casts out the shedim by Baal-zibbul Sar HaShedim. 16And others, to test him, were demanding of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach an ot (sign) from Shomayim. 17But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, having had daas of their machshavot (thoughts), said to them, Every Malchut divided against itself is laid waste; and a bais (household) divided against itself falls. 18And if HaSatan also was divided against himself, how shall Hasatanʼs Malchut (Kingdom) stand? Because you say by Baal-zibbul I cast out shedim. 19But if I by Baal-zibbul cast out the shedim, by whom do your banim cast them out? Oib azoi (consequently), they shall be your shofetim (judges). 20But, if I, by the finger of Hashem, cast out the shedim, then the Malchut Hashem has come upon you.#11:20 Ex 8:19 21When a Gibbor (Strong Man), fully armed, is shomer over his armon (palace), his possessions are left in shalom; 22But when someone stronger than he overpowers him, he takes away from him all his shiryon kaskasim (coat of scale armor) on which he had depended, and distributes his plunder. 23The one who is not with me is against me (anti-Moshiach); and he who does not gather with me, scatters.

24When the ruach hatameh (unclean spirit) goes out from the ben Adam, it goes through waterless places seeking a menuchah (resting place) and, not finding any, it says, I will return to my bais from where I came out. 25And when it comes, it finds the bais having been swept and put beseder. 26Then it goes and takes another sheva shedim more ra'ot (evil) than itself, and they enter it and dwell there; and the acharit (last) condition of that ish becomes worse than the reshit (first).

27And it came about while Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying these shiurim, a certain isha in the multitude, having lifted up her voice, said to him, Ashrey is the womb having carried you and the breasts that nursed you. 28But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Aderaba (to the contrary); ashrey are the ones hearing the dvar Hashem and being shomer mitzvot!#11:28 T.N. Notice refusal here of Moshiach to allow his Em to be given Goyishe veneration.

29And as the multitudes are gathering even more, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say, HaDor HaZeh (this generation) is a Dor Rah! It is seeking an ot, and an ot will not be given to it except the Ot HaYonah (the Sign of Jonah). 30For just as Yonah became to the people of Nineveh an ot, so also the Bar Enosh will be an ot to HaDor HaZeh. 31The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the#11:31 Yom HaDin Mishpat (Judgment) with the men of HaDor HaZeh and she will declare a gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as guilty), because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the chochmah of Sh'lomo, and one greater than Sh'lomo is here.#11:31 1Kgs 10:1; 2Chr 9:1; Ro 8:1 32Men of Nineveh will stand up at the Mishpat (Yom HaDin) with HaDor HaZeh and will condemn it, for they made teshuva at the darshenen of Yonah, and one greater than Yonah is here.

33No one having lit a menorah puts it in a hidden place, nor under the measuring bucket, but on the shulchan, in order that the ones entering may see the ohr. 34The menorah of the basar is your ayin (eye). When your ayin is sound, then your entire basar is full of ohr. But when it is rah, then your basar is full of choshech. 35See to it, then, that the ohr in you is not choshech (darkness). 36If therefore, your whole basar is full of ohr and not having any part choshech, it will be all full of ohr as when the menorah with the ohr (light) shines on you.

37Now while he spoke, a Parush asks him that he might have betziat halechem (have a meal, breaking of bread) with him. And, having entered, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach reclined at tish. 38And the Parush, having seen this, was amazed that Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not first do netilat yadayim before the meal. 39But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to him, Now you Perushim wash the outside of the kos and the dish you clean, but the inside of you is full of gezel (robbery) and resha. 40Goilomim (Foolish people)! Did not the One having made the outside also make the inside? 41But as far as what is inside, give tzedakah, and everything is tahor to you.

42But oy to you, Perushim, because you give as ma'aser (tithe) the mint and the rue and every herb and you disregard the mishpat and the ahavah of Hashem. But these things it was necessary to do and those not to disregard.#11:42 Dt 6:5; Mic 6:8 43Oy to you Perushim! Because your ahavah is for the moshavot harishonim (first seats) in the shuls and the#11:43 obsequious Birkat Shalom greetings in the market places. 44Woe to you, because you are like the unmarked kevarim (graves), and bnei Adam walk over them without having daas.

45And, in reply, one of the Baalei Torah says to him, Rabbi, by saying these things you insult us also. 46But Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said, Also woe to you Baalei Torah, because you burden men with [halachic] loads difficult to carry, and you yourselves with so much as one of your fingers do not touch the loads.#11:46 with a heter 47Woe to you, because you build the matsevot (tombstone monuments) for the Kivrei HaNeviim (the sepulchers of the Prophets), but it was your avot who killed them. 48Therefore, you are edim (witnesses) and in agreement with the deeds of your avot, because they do the killing of nevi'im part and you do the providing of the matsevot part. 49Therefore, also the Chochmah of Hashem said, I will send to them Nevi'im and Shlichim, some of whom they will kill and persecute,#11:49 Lk 20:9-19 50That the Dahm of all the Neviim that has been poured out from the hivvased haOlam (foundation of the world) may be charged to HaDor HaZeh, 51From the blood of Hevel (Abel) to the blood of Zecharyah who was killed al Kiddush ha-Shem between the Mizbe'ach and the Beis Hashem; ken, I tell you, it will be required of HaDor HaZeh.#11:51 Gn 4:8; 2Chr 24:20,21 52Woe to you Ba'alei Torah, because you took the mafteach of da'as; you yourselves did not enter in; and the ones entering in you hindered.

53And when he went from there, the Sofrim and the Perushim began to be terribly hostile and to hock (pose questions one right after the other) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and to subject him to a wide ranging cross-examination, 54Plotting to catch him in something from his mouth.

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