Luke 11

¹And it came to pass in His being in a certain place praying, that when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

²And He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

³Give us each day our necessary bread.

⁴And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.’”

⁵And He said to them, “Who of you will have a friend and will go to him at midnight and would say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶since a friend of mine came to me from a journey, and I have nothing that I will set before him.’?

⁷And he, answering from within, may say, ‘Do not cause me trouble; already the door has been shut, and my children are with me in the bed. I am not able, having risen up, to give to you.’

⁸I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen up because of being his friend, yet because of his persistence, having risen, he will give him as much as he needs.

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

¹⁰For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

¹¹And which father of you, if the son will ask for a fish, instead of even a fish, will give to him a serpent?

¹²Or also, if he will ask for an egg, will give to him a scorpion?

¹³Therefore if you, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!”

¹⁴And He was casting out a demon, and it was mute; and it came to pass, on the demon having gone out, that the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled.

¹⁵And some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, He casts out the demons.”

¹⁶And others, testing, were seeking from Him a sign out of heaven.

¹⁷But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom having been divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house against a house falls.

¹⁸And if Satan also was divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I cast out the demons by Beelzebul.

¹⁹And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this, they will be your judges.

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

²¹When the strong man, being armed, might guard his house, his possessions are in peace.

²²But when one stronger than he, having come upon him, might overcome him, he takes away his full armor in which he had trusted, and he divides his plunder.

²³The one not being with Me is against Me, and the one not gathering with Me scatters.

²⁴When the unclean spirit may go out from the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest. And not finding it, then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’

²⁵And having come, it finds it swept and put in order.

²⁶Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there; and the last of that man becomes worse than the first.”

²⁷And it came to pass, in His saying these things, that a certain woman out of the crowd, having lifted up her voice, said to Him, “Blessed is the womb having borne You and the breasts at which You nursed!”

²⁸But He said, “Rather, blessed are those hearing the word of God and keeping it.”

²⁹Now the crowds being pressed around together, 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.

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

³¹The 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.

³²The 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.

³³No one having lit a lamp puts it in secret, nor under the basket, but on the lampstand, so that those entering may see the light.

³⁴The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye may be sound, also your whole body is full of light; but when it may be evil, your body is also full of darkness.

³⁵Take heed, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness.

³⁶If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, not having any part full of darkness, the whole will be full of light, as when the lamp shining may shine on you.”

³⁷And in His speaking, a Pharisee asked Him that He might dine with him. And having entered, He reclined.

³⁸But the Pharisee, having seen, marveled that He did not wash first before the dinner.

³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you, the Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of plundering and of wickedness.

⁴⁰Fools! Did not the One having made the outside also make the inside?

⁴¹But give as alms the things being within, and behold, all things are clean for you.

⁴²But woe to you, the Pharisees, because you pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and you pass by the judgment and the love of God. But it was necessary to do these things, and those not to neglect.

⁴³Woe to you, the Pharisees, because you love the first seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are like unmarked tombs, and the men walking above do not know.”

⁴⁵But answering, one of the lawyers says to Him, “Teacher, saying these things, You insult us also.”

⁴⁶But He said, “Woe also to you, the lawyers, because you burden men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸So you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and you build the tombs.

⁴⁹Because of this also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets poured out from the foundation of the world might be required from this generation,

⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the one having perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I say to you, it will be required from this generation.

⁵²Woe to you, the lawyers, because you took away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those entering.”

⁵³On His having gone out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began terribly to press upon Him and to make Him speak about many things,

⁵⁴lying in wait to catch Him in something out of His mouth.