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Luke 11:11
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Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

9 a“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; bseek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  
10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 aIf a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?  
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give agood gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”  

A House Divided Cannot Stand

14 aAnd He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. So it was, when the demon had gone out, that the mute spoke; and the multitudes marveled.  
15 But some of them said, a“He casts out demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”  
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Luke 11:11

Of which of you that is a father (tina de ec umwn ton patera). There is a decided anacoluthon here. The MSS. differ a great deal. The text of Westcott and Hort makes ton patera (the father) in apposition with tina (of whom) and in the accusative the object of aithsei (shall ask) which has also another accusative (both person and thing) "a loaf." So far so good. But the rest of the sentence is,

will ye give him a stone? (mh liqon epidwsei autw). Mh shows that the answer No is expected, but the trouble is that the interrogative tina in the first clause is in the accusative the object of aithsei while here the same man (he) is the subject of epidwsei. It is a very awkward piece of Greek and yet it is intelligible. Some of the old MSS. do not have the part about "loaf" and "stone," but only the two remaining parts about "fish" and "serpent," "egg" and "scorpion." The same difficult construction is carried over into these questions also.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 11:11:

John 1:16
James 3:13

 

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