Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 11:13
How much more shall your heavenly Father — How beautiful is the gradation! A friend: a father: God! Give the Holy Spirit — The best of gifts, and that which includes every good gift.
How much more shall your heavenly Father — How beautiful is the gradation! A friend: a father: God! Give the Holy Spirit — The best of gifts, and that which includes every good gift.
LUKE 11:13 @o`# evx ouvranou/ {C} In view of the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 7:11) o` path.r u`mw/n o` evn toi/j ouvranoi/j dw,sei, it is easy to account for the rise of the variant readings...
Verse Luke 11:13. _THE HOLY SPIRIT_] Or, as several MSS. have it, πνευμα αγαθον, _the good spirit_. Matthew 7:11, Matthew 7:11....
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
ON PRAYER (Matthew 6:9 *, Matthew 7:7 *). Lk. assigns the Lord's Prayer to a separate occasion and gives two reasons for the disciples-' request. For the first _cf. Luke 3:21_,...
Jesus said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him towards midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves because a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
KNOW. Greek. _oida._ App-132. CHILDREN. App-108. HEAVENLY. out of (Greek. _ek._ App-104.) heaven. THE HOLY SPIRIT. spiritual gifts. No articles. Greek. _pneuma hagion._ See App-101. Note the five c...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_give the Holy Spirit_ St Matthew has the much more general expression "good things" (Luke 7:11). The Good Father will give to His children neither what is deadly, nor what is unfit for food....
ΠΟΝΗΡΟῚ ὙΠΆΡΧΟΝΤΕΣ. _Whose whole condition is evil_. The verb is stronger than if ὄντες had been used, but Bengel presses the word too much when he calls it “_illustre testimonium de peccato originali...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
Luke 11:1-13. THE LORD’S PRAYER. PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER...
Ver 9. And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that...
_LESSONS ON HOW TO PRAY -- LUKE 11:1-13:_ Jesus, Himself was a praying man. When Jesus finished His prayer one of the disciples made this request to Jesus, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught...
ΟΎΝ (G3767) следовательно, делает вывод. ΎΠΆΡΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΥΠΆΡΧΩ (G5225) быть, существовать, ΟΪΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. в _знач. praes._ ΔΙΔΌΝ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Puerility (Luke 11:1-13) 11He was praying in a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples....
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? IF YE THEN, BEING EVIL - evil though ye...
11 The secret of acceptable prayer today is conformity to the will and purpose of God at this present time. If we ask amiss, He is not so unkind as to grant our requests, neither can He change His pur...
11:13 give (e-25) Or 'who from heaven will give.'...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
PRAYER AND THE ANSWER TO PRAYER (Matthew 7:7, Sermon on the Mount). See on Mt. 11, 12. In answer to prayer God gives neither what is useless (a stone) nor what is harmful (a serpent, or scorpion). The...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
(9-13) ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU. — See Notes on Matthew 7:7; but note (1) the greater impressiveness of the opening words, “And I say unto you,... “as connected with the previous illustration; a...
HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER ...? — We note a change here also, the one highest gift of the “Holy Spirit” taking the place of the wider and less definite “good things” in Matthew 7:11. The...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
ὁ π. ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, this epithet is attached to πατὴρ here though not in the Lord's Prayer. Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον instead of Mt.'s ἀγαθὰ. The Holy Spirit is mentioned here as the _summum donum_, and the supreme...
_The moral of the story_ (_cf._ Matthew 7:7-11). κἀγὼ ὑμῖν, etc., and _I_ (the same speaker as in Luke 11:8) say to _you_, with equal confidence. What Jesus says is in brief: you also will get what yo...
Luke 11:1-13 contain a lesson on prayer, consisting of two parts: _first_, a form of prayer suggesting the chief objects of desire (Luke 11:1-4); _second_, an argument enforcing perseverance in prayer...
ENCOURAGEMENT TO PERSEVERING PRAYER Luke 11:5-13 The parable of the three friends is very encouraging. We, so to speak, are to act as mediators or intercessors between those who are in sore need and...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
YOUR FATHER WHO IS FROM HEAVEN Luke 11:11-13. “ _But which father of you_, _shall his son ask bread_, _whether will he give him a stone_? _Or indeed a fish_, _whether_, _instead of a fish_, _will he g...
“ _If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?_ 12. _Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a s...
6. _Prayer: Luke 11:1-13_. Continuing still to advance leisurely, the Lord remained faithful to His habit of prayer. He was not satisfied with that constant direction of soul toward His Father, to whi...
2 _d. Luke 11:5-13_. _The Efficacy of Prayer._ After having declared to His own the essential objects to be prayed for, Jesus encourages them thus to pray by assuring them of the efficacy of the act....
(1) And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. (2) And he said unto...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
IF YE THEN BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS UNTO YOUR CHILDREN,.... Matthew 7:11. HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM? instead of the Holy Spirit...
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall _your_ heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Ver. 13. See Matthew 7:9,11 ....
_If ye then, being evil If ye_, who are, at least, comparatively _evil_, and perhaps inclined to a penurious and morose temper, yet _know how to give good gifts to your children_ And find your hearts...
Asking of God in prayer. Matthew 7:7-11....
GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT; this is the gift of gifts, including in itself all needed good. God loves to have men pray for the greatest blessing he can bestow, the Holy Spirit, which he has promised to thos...
A further admonition:...
IF YE, THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD, GIFTS UNTO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM! Jesus draws a final lesson from the love w...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
5-13 Christ encourages fervency and constancy in prayer. We must come for what we need, as a man does to his neighbour or friend, who is kind to him. We must come for bread; for that which is needful...
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Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? "And if we, being evil, know to give good gifts,"[78]...
Luke 11:13 If G1487 you G5210 then G3767 being G5225 (G5723) evil G4190 know G1492 (G5758) give...
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” And all this is sure, because if we, who ar...
THE CERTAINTY OF PROVISION TO THOSE WHO SEEK TOMORROW'S BREAD, THE HOLY SPIRIT (11:9-13). The lesson here is that those who want to enjoy God's full provision must be urgent and persistent. There mus...
A MAN SEEKING HIS DAILY BREAD IS PROVIDED FOR. HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD WE SEEK THE HOLY SPIRIT (11:5-13). In the chiasmus of the whole Section the first part of this passage parallels Martha's provision...
Luke 11:11-13. See on Matthew 7:9-11. The construction is simpler here, and Luke 11:12 is peculiar to Luke, but a repetition of the previous thought SCORPION. Another hurtful gift. YOUR HEAVENLY FA...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
THE TIME and place of the following incident are indefinite, but it cannot be a part of the Sermon on the Mount, put out of its place. A definite occasion is stated in Luke 11:1, and Luke 11:5-8 are n...
KNOW HOW TO GIVE (οιδατε διδονα). See on Matthew 7:11 for this same saying. Only here Jesus adds the Holy Spirit (πνευμα αγιον) as the great gift (the _summum bonum_) that the Father is ready to be...
GIVE It is evident that none of the disciples, with the possible exception of Mary of Bethany, asked for the Spirit in the faith of this promise. It was a new and staggering thing to a Jew that, in a...
Luke 11:13 I. Whilst prayer is described in the Bible as a positive duty, man's inability to pray acceptably of himself is stated in the strongest and most unequivocal terms. But if such be the nature...
Luke 11:6 The Friend at Midnight. I. The success of prayer is conditioned by the character of the suppliant. Not every kind of asking is acceptable prayer. That which men desire simply for the gratif...
Luke 11:1. _And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ It seemed...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
ASK, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE. See note on Matthew 7:7-11. Luke does not give a "chronological history," and these events are "out of sequence." WILL GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. Matthew says: _"good things._ ...
_How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit_ THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT I. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 1. He is a person, and may be grieved. 2. He intercedes for believe...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:11 This is a “lesser to greater” argument. Since vv. Luke 11:11 are true, then the concluding statement (v....
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:1. The time and place when this incident occurred are indefinite, but there can be no doubt that we have not here part of the Sermon on the Mount, put out of its place. The fo...
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
2 Corinthians 3:9; Ezekiel 36:27; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 6:6; Genesis 8:
Being [υ π α ρ χ ο ν τ ε ς]. See on James 2:15. Heavenly Father. Lit., the Father, he who is from Heaven. 14, 15, 17 - 23. Compare Matthew 12:22-37....
SATAN'S STRATEGIES AGAINST THE SON OF GOD Luke 11:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Scripture chosen for this study describes a continual conflict which existed between Christ and Satan. The Lord Jesus is t...