Lucas 11

¹ And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.

² And he said to them, When you{+} pray, say, Father, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.

³ Give us day by day our daily bread.

⁴ And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.

⁵ And he said to them, Which of you{+} will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

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 inside will answer and say, Don't trouble me: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I can't rise and give you.

⁸ I say to you{+}, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needs.

⁹ And I say to you{+}, Ask, and it will be given you{+}; seek, and you{+} will find; knock, and it will be opened to you{+}.

¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it will be opened.

¹¹ And of which of you{+} who is a father will his son ask for a fish, and he for a fish gives him a serpent?

¹² Or [if] he will ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

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.

¹⁴ And he was casting out a demon, and it was mute. And it came to pass, when the demon was gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

¹⁵ But some of them said, By Beelzebul the prince of the demons he casts out demons.

¹⁶ And others, trying [him], sought of him a sign from heaven.

¹⁷ But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house falls.

¹⁸ And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? because you{+} say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

¹⁹ And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your{+} sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your{+} judges.

²⁰ But, if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then has the kingdom of God come upon you{+}.

²¹ When the strong [man] fully armed guards his own court, his goods are in peace:

²² but when a stronger than he will come upon him, and overcome him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

²³ He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit goes out of the man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest and not finding [any]. Then it says, I will turn back to my house from where I came out.

²⁵ And when it comes, it finds it swept and garnished.

²⁶ Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

²⁷ And 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 that nursed you.

²⁸ But he said, On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.

²⁹ And when the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeks after a sign; and there will be no sign given to it but the sign of Jonah.

³⁰ For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.

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 look, a greater than Solomon is here.

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 Jonah; and look, a greater than Jonah is here.

³³ No man, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the lampstand, that those which enter in may see the light.

³⁴ The lamp of your body is your eye: when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

³⁵ Look therefore whether the light that is in you is not darkness.

³⁶ If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no dark part, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.

³⁷ Now as he spoke, a Pharisee asks him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

³⁸ And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, Now you{+} the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your{+} inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

⁴⁰ You{+} foolish ones, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

⁴¹ But clean those things which are inside; and look, all of you{+} is clean.

⁴² But woe to you{+} Pharisees! For you{+} tithe mint and dill and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these you{+} ought to have done, and not to neglect the others.

⁴³ Woe to you{+} Pharisees! For you{+} love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

⁴⁴ Woe to you{+}! For you{+} are as the tombs which do not appear, and the men who walk over [them] do not know it.

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering says to him, Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.

⁴⁶ And he said, Woe to you{+} lawyers also! For you{+} load men with loads grievous to be borne, and you{+} yourselves don't touch the loads with one of your{+} fingers.

⁴⁷ Woe to you{+}! For you{+} build the tombs of the prophets, and your{+} fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ So you{+} are witnesses and give your{+} approval to the works of your{+} fathers: for they killed them, and you{+} build [their tombs].

⁴⁹ Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send to them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they will kill and persecute;

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, having been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yes, I say to you{+}, it will be required of this generation.

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.

⁵³ And when he came out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press on [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.