Luke 11

Luke 11
Fragment of Uncial 0191, 6th century bilingual Greek-Coptic manuscript of the Gospels with text of Luke 11:51-12:5
Book Gospel of Luke
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 3
Category Gospel
Luke 11
Book Gospel of Luke
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 3
Category Gospel

Luke 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer and several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.[2]

Text

The original text is written in Koine Greek and divided into 54 verses.

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows (with cross references to other synoptic gospels):

The Lord's Prayer

The chapter opens with Jesus praying in "a certain place" and being asked to teach his disciples to pray, as John the Baptist had taught his disciples.[3]

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable of the friend at night, from the Bowyer Bible
Ask, and it will be given to you [4]
(Greek: αιτειτε και δοθησεται υμιν, aiietie kai dothēsetai hymin)

The text here mirrors Luke's text at 6:38:

Give, and it will be given to you
(δίδοτε καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν, didote kai dothēsetai hymin)

God's responsiveness to persistent prayer can be understood in the light of a parable about persistence in seeking help from a neighbour. German theologian Heinrich Meyer notes that Jesus argues a minori ad majus (from the lesser to the greater),[5] a mode of reasoning similar to the Kal vachomer reasoning of Hillel the Elder.

He who does not gather with me scatters

Luke 11:23b, also Matthew 12:30 Baptist theologian John Gill suggests that "the allusion is either to the gathering of the sheep into the fold, and the scattering of them by the wolf; or to the gathering of the wheat, and binding it in sheaves, and bringing it home in harvest; and to the scattering of the wheat loose in the field, whereby it is lost".[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Luke 11:1
  4. ↑ Luke 11:9
  5. ↑ Meyer, H., Meyer's NT Commentary on Luke 11, accessed 16 June 2018
  6. ↑ Gill, J. (1746–48), Gill's Exposition on Luke 11, accessed 17 June 2018
Preceded by
Luke 10		 Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of Luke		 Succeeded by
Luke 12
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