11:1 - After the disciples listened to Jesus prayers, one of them asked him to teach them to pray just as John had taught his disciples.
11:2 - He told them, the words you should pray are, Our Father who is in Heaven, Hallowed is your name. Your kingdom has come. Your will will be followed on earth as it is followed in heaven.
11:3 - Give us everything we need everyday.
11:4 - And forgive us our sins; for we forgive every one who has sinned against us. And don’t lead us into temptation; but rescue us from evil.
11:5 - And he said to them, Who among you would go to your friend at midnight, saying, Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread;
11:6 - A traveling friend of mine has come to see me, and I have nothing to give him?
11:7 - He answered through the door leave me alone my children are sleep I cannot do anything for you.
11:8 - I tell you, Even though he will not give up and give him bread because it is his friend who is asking, he will get up and give him bread because he will get tired of listening to his friend knock at the door.
11:9 - And I say to you: Ask and you’ll get what you want. Seek and you’ll find what you’re looking for. Knock and the door will be opened for you.
11:10 - Everyone that asks will receive, everyone that seeks will find, and everyone that knocks will have doors opened.
11:11 - Will a father give his son a stone when he’s asked for bread or a serpent when he’s asked for a fish?
11:12 - Or should he ask for an egg, would he be offered a scorpion?
11:13 - If even you evil people like to give good gifts to your children: won’t your Father in heaven give his Holy Spirit to you when you ask?
11:14 - And he was rebuking an evil spirit from a mute person. And after the evil spirit had departed, the mute person spoke; and the people were astonished.
11:15 - But some of them said, He casts out demons through withcraft.
11:16 - They tempted him, by demanding a sign from heaven.
11:17 - But, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them: When the people in a kingdom are at odds with one another, it ends in disaster \u2013 just as when the members of a household are fighting among themselves.
11:18 - If Satan’s soldiers are fighting against each other, how will his kingdom not fall? because you say I am using Satan’s power to cast out demons.
11:19 - If I get rid of evil because of Beelzebub, why do your sons get rid of them? They are your judges.
11:20 - But if I drive out devils by the grace of God, do not doubt that the kingdom of God will come into your heart.
11:21 - When a strong man defends his land himself, his things are at peace.
11:22 - But when someone stronger than him comes, and beats him, he will take from him all the amour which he trusted and divide his riches.
11:23 - Whoever who is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
11:24 - When the demon has been evicted from the man’s spirit, he travels through dry, desolate places, looking for a peaceful spot to rest; when he doesn’t find one, he says, I will go back home where I came from.
11:25 - And when he comes he will find it clean and decorated.
11:26 - He entered, bringing with him seven other spirits more wicked than he; and the final condition of the man is worse than the first.
11:27 - And when he spoke of these things a woman in the company raised her voice and said, blessed in the womb that you grew in, and the nipples which you sucked.
11:28 - But he said, Actually, the ones you are truly blessed are the ones who hear God’s word and do what it says.
11:29 - There was a crowd that gathered around Him and he told them, Everyone wants to see a sign or a miracle, but they aren’t going to see anything except an event that resembles what happened to Jonas.
11:30 - Jonas came onto the Ninevites as an omen, and so shall the Son of man come to us today.
11:31 - The queen of the south will judge the men of this generation and condemn them: because she came from the highest parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and here is someone even greater than Solomon.
11:32 - The citizens of Nineve will judge you and your peers, and they’ll condemn you. Because at least they repented when Jonas preached to them, and someone far more important than Jonas is here to preach to you.
11:33 - Nobody lights a candle and then hides it under a basket or in a closet, but they put it on a candlestick, so that people can see the light.
11:34 - Consider the eye as the light of the body so when your eye is bright and clear your entire being is full of light. When your eye is evil, though, your body fills with darkness.
11:35 - Examine yourself then to make sure that all you have done which you think has been good is not in truth veiled in evilness.
11:36 - If you are pure all the way through, it will shine all the way through.
11:37 - The Pharisee before him begged him to join him for dinner, so they ate a solid meaty meal together.
11:38 - The Pharisee, upon seeing this, wondered that he didn’t wash first before taking a meal.
11:39 - Then the Lord told him, You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and platters, but on the inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
11:40 - You fools, didn’t he make your outside and your inside, too?
11:41 - But rather buy the things you have bought; and you will see all things are clean for you.
11:42 - Woe is you, Pharisees! for you give mint and all kinds of herbs, and ignore judgement and the love of God: these you should have paid attention to instead and ignored the herbs.
11:43 - Sadness unto you, Pharisees! because you love the highest and most powerful in the synagogues, and conversations with the elite in the markets.
11:44 - You scribes and Pharisees are in big trouble. You are hypocrites. You are like underground graves that are indistinguishable from aboveground, and people just walk over without even knowing.
11:45 - Then one of the lawyers said to him, Teacher, by saying this, you’re criticizing us too.
11:46 - And he said: You’re in trouble too, you lawyers! You are responsible for putting unbearable burdens upon people and not helping them in any way.
11:47 - Shame on you! You have mocked the prophets by building their tombs and your fathers have killed them by mocking their words.
11:48 - You certainly testify that you endorse the things your ancestors did, because they killed them and you build their tombs.
11:49 - Also said the wisdom of God, I will send prophets and apostles some of whom will be killed and prosecuted:
11:50 - The lives of all the people who prophesied about God and tried to get people believe, all their blood could be something required of the present group of people.
11:51 - Truly I tell you; this generation must do it — everyone, from the line of Abel to the line of Zacharias.
11:52 - And you, the lawyers, took away the key of knowledge; didn’t use it yourselves and interfered with everyone else that tried.
11:53 - As he spoke to them, the religious leaders began to egg him on, hoping to provoke him to say things he might regret:
11:54 - They were lying in wait, for him, hoping to catch him saying something that they could use against him.