Luke 11

¹ And it occurred at His being in a certain place praying, as He ceases, a certain one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, according as John also teaches his disciples." ² Now He said to them, "Whenever you may be praying, be saying, 'Our Father, Who art in the heavens, hallowed be Thy name! Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, on earth also, ³ Give us our daily dole of bread. ⁴ And pardon us our sins, for we ourselves also are pardoning everyone who is owing us. And mayest Thou not bring us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.'" ⁵ And He said to them, "Who of you will be having a friend and will be going to him at midnight and may be saying to him, 'Friend, let me use three cakes of bread, ⁶ since, in fact, a friend of mine came along out of the road to me, and I have nothing that I should be placing before him'; ⁷ and he, inside, answering, may be saying, Do not afford me weariness; already the door is locked, and my little children with me are in bed; I can not rise to give to you'. ⁸ I am saying to you, even if he will not rise to give to him because of his being his friend, surely because of his pestering, being roused, he will be giving him whatever he needs. ⁹ And I to you am saying, Request, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who is requesting is obtaining and who is seeking is finding, and to the one knocking it shall be opened. ¹¹ Now of some father of you a son will be requesting bread. No stone will he be handing him! Or a fish, also. Not, instead of a fish, a serpent will he be handing him! ¹² Or he will also be requesting an egg. He will not be handing him a scorpion! ¹³ If you, then, being inherently wicked, are aware how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather will the Father Who is out of heaven, be giving holy spirit to those requesting Him!" ¹⁴ And he was casting out a demon, and it was a mute one. Now it occurred, at the coming out of the demon, that the mute man speaks. And the throngs marvel. ¹⁵ Yet some of them said, "By Beelzeboul, the chief of the demons, is he casting out the demons." Yet He, answering, said, "How can Satan be casting out Satan?" ¹⁶ Yet others, trying Him, sought a sign out of heaven from Him. ¹⁷ Yet He, aware of their cogitations, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is being desolated, and house against house is falling. ¹⁸ Now if Satan, also, is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand - seeing that you are saying, I am casting out the demons by Beelzeboul? ¹⁹ Now If I, by Beelzeboul, am casting out demons, by whom are your sons casting them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. ²⁰ Now if I, by the finger of God, am casting out demons, consequently the kingdom of God outstrips you in time. ²¹ Whenever the strong one, armed, may be guarding his own courtyard, his possessions are in peace. ²² Yet if ever a stronger than he, coming on, should be conquering him, he is taking away his panoply, in which he had confidence, and is distributing his spoils. ²³ He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who is not gathering with Me is scattering. ²⁴ Whenever the unclean spirit may be coming out from a man, it is passing through waterless places, seeking rest, and not finding it. Then it is saying, 'I will be returning into my home whence I came out.' ²⁵ And coming, it is finding it unoccupied, swept and decorated. ²⁶ Then it is going and taking along with itself seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and entering, it is dwelling there. And the last state of that man is becoming worse than the first." ²⁷ Now it occurred as He is saying these things, a certain woman out of the throng, lifting up her voice, said to Him, "Happy the womb which bears Thee, and the breasts which Thou didst suckle!" ²⁸ Yet He said, "Indeed then, happy are those who are hearing the word of God and maintaining it!" ²⁹ Now, the throngs being convened, He begins to be saying, "This generation is a wicked generation. A sign it is seeking, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. ³⁰ For, according as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, thus the Son of Mankind, also, will be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with the men of this generation and will be condemning them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here! ³² Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and they will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here! ³³ Now no one, lighting a lamp, is placing it in hiding, nor yet under a peck measure but on a lampstand, that those going in may be observing the light. ³⁴ The lamp of the body is your eye. Whenever, then, your eye may be single, your whole body, also, is luminous, yet if ever it may be wicked, your body, also is dark. ³⁵ Be noting, then, that the light in you is not darkness. ³⁶ If, then, your whole body is luminous, not having any part dark, luminous will be the whole, as whenever a lamp, in its flashing, may be illuminating you." ³⁷ Now, in His speaking, a certain Pharisee is asking Him so that He should be lunching with him. Now entering, He leans back at table. ³⁸ Now the Pharisee, perceiving it, marvels that He is not first baptized before luncheon. ³⁹ Yet the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees are cleansing the outside of the cup and the platter, yet your inside is brimming with rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Imprudent ones! Does not He Who makes the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ However, what is within be giving as alms, and lo! all is clean to you. ⁴² But woe to you, Pharisees! for you are taking tithes from mint and rue and all greens, and you are passing by judging and the love of God. Now these it was binding for you to do and not to be devoid of those. ⁴³ Woe to you, Pharisees! seeing that you are loving the front seat in the synagogues and the salutations in the markets. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as the obscure tombs, and the men who are walking upon them are not aware of it." ⁴⁵ Now, answering, a certain one of those learned in the law is saying to Him, "Teacher, saying these things, us also are you outraging." ⁴⁶ Yet He said, "To you who are learned in the law, also, woe! for you are loading men with loads hard to bear, and you yourselves are not grazing the loads with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets, yet your fathers kill them. ⁴⁸ Consequently you are witnesses and are endorsing the acts of your fathers, for they, indeed, kill them, yet you are building their tombs. ⁴⁹ Therefore, also, God's Wisdom said, 'I shall be dispatching to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will be killing and banishing,' ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which is shed from the disruption of the world may be exacted from this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yea, I am saying to you, It will be exacted from this generation! ⁵² Woe to you who are learned in the law! for you take away the key of knowledge - you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering you prevent." ⁵³ And at His coming out thence, the scribes and the Pharisees begin to hem Him in dreadfully and to be quizzing Him concerning more things, ⁵⁴ ambushing Him, seeking to pounce upon something out of His mouth, that they shall be accusing Him.