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    Luke 11

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    An unclean spirit returns to a house swept clean and, finding it in admirable order, fetches seven spirits worse than itself to move in. Spiritual housekeeping, it seems, has its complications.

    Bread at midnight, and the scorpion questionvv. 1–13

    Jesus has just finished praying when a disciple asks to be taught. The answer begins with the holiness of the Father’s name and ends, rather splendidly, with the Holy Spirit. Between them comes a midnight visitor asking a reluctant friend for three loaves, because hospitality has arrived before the provisions have. The friend is in bed with his children and would prefer the door to remain shut, but persistence gets the bread. Then Jesus makes the domestic contrast unusually exact: a son asking for a fish is not handed a snake, nor an egg a scorpion. The pantry contains its theology.

    The house and the brighter signvv. 14–36

    Jesus drives out a mute demon, and the man speaks. The crowd is amazed; some accuse Jesus of working by Beelzebul, while others demand a sign from heaven. Jesus answers that a divided kingdom is a fallen kingdom, and that a stronger man can disarm the strong man guarding his house. Then comes the peculiar domestic sequel: an unclean spirit wanders through arid places, returns to its former house, finds it swept and tidy, and recruits seven worse spirits for the vacancy. A woman praises the womb that bore Jesus, but Jesus points elsewhere—to those who hear the word of God and obey it. The crowds want a sign, yet Jonah, the Queen of the South, and the men of Nineveh are already brought into the argument. The lamp is set on a stand; the real puzzle is whether the eye has made the body bright or dark.

    Dinner, washing, and the full weight of a woevv. 37–54

    A Pharisee invites Jesus to dine, and Jesus reclines without washing first. This is enough to start the next movement. The outside of the cup and dish is clean, Jesus says, while greed and wickedness occupy the inside. The Pharisees receive woes for neglecting justice and the love of God, loving chief seats and marketplace greetings, and resembling unmarked graves. An expert in the law objects that the insult includes the experts too. Jesus agrees immediately and adds more: heavy burdens they will not lift, tombs for prophets killed by their fathers, and a key to knowledge which they have taken away. The scribes and Pharisees then begin opposing Him bitterly, asking questions while waiting for a catch. It is an unusually tense end to a dinner invitation.

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    1. Luke 11:1One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

    2. Luke 11:2So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

    3. Luke 11:3Give us each day our daily bread.

    4. Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”

    5. Luke 11:5Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

    6. Luke 11:6because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’

    7. Luke 11:7And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’

    8. Luke 11:8I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

    9. Luke 11:9So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

    10. Luke 11:10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

    11. Luke 11:11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

    12. Luke 11:12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

    13. Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

    14. Luke 11:14One day Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. And when the demon was gone, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed,

    15. Luke 11:15but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

    16. Luke 11:16And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.

    17. Luke 11:17Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and a house divided against a house will fall.

    18. Luke 11:18If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

    19. Luke 11:19And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

    20. Luke 11:20But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

    21. Luke 11:21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.

    22. Luke 11:22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

    23. Luke 11:23He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

    24. Luke 11:24When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

    25. Luke 11:25On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.

    26. Luke 11:26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”

    27. Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

    28. Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

    29. Luke 11:29As the crowds were increasing, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.

    30. Luke 11:30For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

    31. Luke 11:31The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

    32. Luke 11:32The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

    33. Luke 11:33No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.

    34. Luke 11:34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.

    35. Luke 11:35Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

    36. Luke 11:36So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”

    37. Luke 11:37As Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to dine with him; so He went in and reclined at the table.

    38. Luke 11:38But the Pharisee was surprised to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.

    39. Luke 11:39Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

    40. Luke 11:40You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

    41. Luke 11:41But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.

    42. Luke 11:42Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

    43. Luke 11:43Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

    44. Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

    45. Luke 11:45One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

    46. Luke 11:46“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “For you weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.

    47. Luke 11:47Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

    48. Luke 11:48So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

    49. Luke 11:49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

    50. Luke 11:50As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

    51. Luke 11:51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.

    52. Luke 11:52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

    53. Luke 11:53As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

    54. Luke 11:54waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

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    • 9Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
    • 9John 16:23–24In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
    • 9Matthew 21:22If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
    • 9John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
    • 91 John 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
    • 91 John 3:22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
    • 9Matthew 7:7–11Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
    • 9Psalms 118:5In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
    • 9Jeremiah 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
    • 9Hebrews 11:6And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
    • 9James 5:15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
    • 92 Corinthians 12:8–9Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
    • 28Luke 6:47–48I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
    • 13Matthew 7:11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
    • 28Luke 8:21But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
    • 28Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

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