Luke 11 It came to pass also when he was at a certain place, praying, that soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ It came to pass also when he was at a certain place, praying, that soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples. ² Whereupon he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy reign come; thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; ³ give us day by day our daily bread, ⁴ and forgive us our sins, for we indeed do forgive every one who offendeth us: and bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil one. ⁵ Then he said to them, Should any of you have a friend, and go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; ⁶ for a friend of mine is come off his road to me, and I have nothing to set before him: ⁷ and he from within should say in reply, Do not trouble me now: the door is shut, and my children as well as I are in bed: I cannot rise and give thee: ⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give him on account of being his friend; yet on account of his importunity he will rise and give him what he wanteth. ⁹ Now I say to you, Ask, and you shall obtain: seek, and you shall find: knock, and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one who asketh obtaineth: and he who seeketh, findeth: and to him who knocketh, the door will be opened. ¹¹ What father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? Or, if he asketh for a fish, would, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? ¹² Or, if he asked for an egg, would give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more will your heavenly father give a holy spirit to them who ask him? ¹⁴ Again, when he was expelling a demon, which was dumb, and as soon as the demon went out the dumb man spoke, and the people expressed admiration, ¹⁵ but some of them said, By Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he expelleth the demons; ¹⁶ and others, to try him, demanded of him a sign from heaven; ¹⁷ he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and house after house falleth. ¹⁸ Now if Satan be divided against himself, how can his kingdom subsist? Because you say that I expel the demons by Beelzebub; ¹⁹ therefore if I expel the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges. ²⁰ But if I, with the finger of God, expel the demons, then indeed the kingdom of God hath reached you. ²¹ While the strong one armed guardeth his court, his goods are safe. ²² But when one stronger than he attacketh and overcometh him, he taketh from him his armour on which he relied. Then he divideth his spoils. ²³ He who is not with me is against me. And he who doth not gather with me scattered! ²⁴ When the unclean spirit hath gone out of the man; it walketh about through dry places, seeking rest: and finding none, it saith, I will return to my house from which I came out. ²⁵ And when it is come, it findeth the house swept and garnished. ²⁶ Then it goeth and taketh along seven other spirits worse than itself; and they having entered in, dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first, ²⁷ As he was thus speaking, it happened that a woman among the crowd, raising her voice, said to him, Happy the womb which bore thee and the breasts which thou hast sucked! ²⁸ Whereupon he said, Nay, rather happy they who hear the word of God and keep it. ²⁹ Now the crowds being collected in a body, he took occasion to say, This is a wicked generation. It seeketh a sign; but to it no sign shall be given, save the sign of the prophet Jonas. ³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so will the son of man be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extreme parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineve will stand up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas, and behold something greater than Jonas is here. ³³ No one having lighted a lamp putteth it in a secret place, or under the corn measure, but on a stand, that they who come in may see the light. ³⁴ The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore when the eye is clear, the whole body is enlightened; but when it is distempered, the whole body is dark. ³⁵ See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. ³⁶ Is then thy whole body enlightened? To one who hath no part dark, the whole, being enlightened. ³⁷ After he had spoken, a certain Pharisee invited him to dine with him, so he went and placed himself at table. ³⁸ And when the Pharisee who saw this expressed surprise that he had not first washed before dinner, ³⁹ the Lord said to him, Now as for you Pharisees, yon cleanse the outside of the cup and plate; but as to the inside, it is full of your rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Unthinking men! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹ But with respect to the things in it, give alms, and behold they are all clean to you. ⁴² But alas for you, Pharisees! because you pay tithe of mint, and rue, and of all kinds of pulse, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have practised, without, however, neglecting the other. ⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in public places. ⁴⁴ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like concealed graves, over which men walk without perceiving them. ⁴⁵ Upon this, one of the teachers of the law, interposing, saith to him, Teacher, by speaking thus dost thou reproach us also? ⁴⁶ Thereupon he said, Alas for you also, ye teachers of the law, because you load men with heavy burdens hard to be borne, and will not yourselves touch these burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Alas for you; because you build the monuments of the prophets, and your fathers slew them. ⁴⁸ You therefore bear testimony, and approve the works of your fathers. Because they slew them, you, therefore, build their monuments; ⁴⁹ on this account indeed said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill, and others they will persecute, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation. ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias who was slain between the altar and the temple: Verily I say to you, it will be required of this very generation. ⁵² Alas for you, teachers of the law! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You entered not in yourselves; and them who were entering you hindered. ⁵³ Now while he was saying these things to them, the Scribes and the Pharisees took occasion to urge him vehemently, and provoke him to speak of many things, ⁵⁴ laying snares for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him;