Luke 11 — Greek text and reception

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And it happened that He was praying in a certain place. When He stopped, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

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He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, let Your name be hallowed. Let Your kingdom come.

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Give us each day our bread for the day.

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And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who owes us. And do not bring us into testing.’”

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And He said to them, “Which of you will have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

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since a friend of mine has arrived at my home from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

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and that man will answer from inside, ‘Do not trouble me. The door is already shut, and my children are in bed with me. I cannot get up and give you anything’?

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I tell you, even if he will not get up and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless insistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

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And I tell you: ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

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Or again, if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

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So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

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And He was driving out a mute demon. When the demon came out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds marveled.

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But some of them said, “He drives out the demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

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Others, testing Him, were seeking from Him a sign from heaven.

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But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and house falls upon house.

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And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I drive out the demons by Beelzebul.

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But if I drive out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

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But if I drive out the demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

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When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own courtyard, his possessions are at peace.

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But when someone stronger than he attacks and defeats him, he takes away the full armor in which he trusted and distributes his spoils.

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Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters.

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When the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest. Finding none, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

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And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.

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Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first.”

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While He was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed!”

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But He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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As the crowds were gathering in greater numbers, He began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

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For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

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The queen of the south will be raised at the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

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The men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

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No one who lights a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under the modius basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see its light.

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Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is single, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body is also dark.

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Watch, therefore, that the light within you is not darkness.

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So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when a lamp illumines you with its radiance.”

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As He was speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to dine with him. He went in and reclined at the table.

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But the Pharisee, seeing this, marveled that He had not first washed before the meal.

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And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of plunder and wickedness.

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Fools! Did not the One who made the outside also make the inside?

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But give what is within as alms, and behold, everything is clean for you.

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But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every garden herb, and pass by justice and the love of God! You ought to have done these things without leaving those undone.

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Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the foremost seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces!

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Woe to you, because you are like unmarked tombs, and the people who walk over them do not know it!”

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One of the experts in the Law answered Him, “Teacher, by saying these things You insult us also.”

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But He said, “Woe also to you experts in the Law, because you load people with burdens hard to carry, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers!

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Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them!

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So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers: they killed them, and you build.

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For this reason the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of these they will kill and persecute,’

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so that the blood of all the prophets poured out since the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

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Woe to you experts in the Law, because you have taken away the key of knowledge! You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

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When He went out from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to press Him fiercely and question Him closely about many things,

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lying in wait for Him to catch something from His mouth.