Lukas 11

1And it came to pass, that as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

2And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

3Give us this day our daily bread.

4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.

5And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves,

6Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have not what to set before him.

7And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

8Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth.

9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

10For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

11And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?

14And he was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb: and when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes were in admiration at it:

15But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.

16And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven.

17But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself, shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall.

18And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils.

19Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub; by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

20But if I by the finger of God cast out devils; doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you.

21When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth.

22But if a stronger than he come upon him, and overcome him; he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils.

23He that is not with me, is against me; and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out.

25And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.

26Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

27And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.

28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

29And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

30For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

31The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold more than Solomon here.

32The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas; and behold more than Jonas here.

33No man lighteth a candle, and putteth it in a hidden place, nor under a bushel; but upon a candlestick, that they that come in, may see the light.

34The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome.

35Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkness.

36If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness; the whole shall be lightsome; and as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.

37And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him, that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat.

38And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner.

39And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within?

41But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold, all things are clean unto you.

42But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb; and pass over judgment, and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

43Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace.

44Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not, and men that walk over are not aware.

45And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

46But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

48Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.

49For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute.

50That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

52Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.

53And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him, and to oppress his mouth about many things,

54Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

1Et factum est: cum esset in quodam loco orans, ut cessavit, dixit unus ex discipulis ejus ad eum: Domine, doce nos orare, sicut docuit et Joannes discipulos suos.

2Et ait illis: Cum oratis, dicite: Pater, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum.

3Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie.

4Et dimitte nobis peccata nostra, siquidem et ipsi dimittimus omni debenti nobis. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.

5Et ait ad illos: Quis vestrum habebit amicum, et ibit ad illum media nocte, et dicet illi: Amice, commoda mihi tres panes,

6quoniam amicus meus venit de via ad me, et non habeo quod ponam ante illum,

7et ille de intus respondens dicat: Noli mihi molestus esse, jam ostium clausum est, et pueri mei mecum sunt in cubili: non possum surgere, et dare tibi.

8Et si ille perseveraverit pulsans: dico vobis, etsi non dabit illi surgens eo quod amicus ejus sit, propter improbitatem tamen ejus surget, et dabit illi quotquot habet necessarios.

9Et ego dico vobis: Petite, et dabitur vobis; quærite, et invenietis; pulsate, et aperietur vobis.

10Omnis enim qui petit, accipit: et qui quærit, invenit: et pulsanti aperietur.

11Quis autem ex vobis patrem petit panem, numquid lapidem dabit illi? aut piscem, numquid pro pisce serpentem dabit illi?

12aut si petierit ovum, numquid porriget illi scorpionem?

13Si ergo vos, cum sitis mali, nostis bona data dare filiis vestris: quanto magis Pater vester de cælo dabit spiritum bonum petentibus se?

14Et erat ejiciens dæmonium, et illud erat mutum. Et cum ejecisset dæmonium, locutus est mutus, et admiratæ sunt turbæ.

15Quidam autem ex eis dixerunt: In Beelzebub principe dæmoniorum ejicit dæmonia.

16Et alii tentantes, signum de cælo quærebant ab eo.

17Ipse autem ut vidit cogitationes eorum, dixit eis: Omne regnum in seipsum divisum desolabitur, et domus supra domum cadet.

18Si autem et Satanas in seipsum divisus est, quomodo stabit regnum ejus? quia dicitis in Beelzebub me ejicere dæmonia.

19Si autem ego in Beelzebub ejicio dæmonia: filii vestri in quo ejiciunt? ideo ipsi judices vestri erunt.

20Porro si in digito Dei ejicio dæmonia: profecto pervenit in vos regnum Dei.

21Cum fortis armatus custodit atrium suum, in pace sunt ea quæ possidet.

22Si autem fortior eo superveniens vicerit eum, universa arma ejus auferet, in quibus confidebat, et spolia ejus distribuet.

23Qui non est mecum, contra me est: et qui non colligit mecum, dispergit.

24Cum immundus spiritus exierit de homine, ambulat per loca inaquosa, quærens requiem: et non inveniens dicit: Revertar in domum meam unde exivi.

25Et cum venerit, invenit eam scopis mundatam, et ornatam.

26Tunc vadit, et assumit septem alios spiritus secum, nequiores se, et ingressi habitant ibi. Et fiunt novissima hominis illius pejora prioribus.

27Factum est autem, cum hæc diceret: extollens vocem quædam mulier de turba dixit illi: Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quæ suxisti.

28At ille dixit: Quinimmo beati, qui audiunt verbum Dei et custodiunt illud.

29Turbis autem concurrentibus cœpit dicere: Generatio hæc, generatio nequam est: signum quærit, et signum non dabitur ei, nisi signum Jonæ prophetæ.

30Nam sicut fuit Jonas signum Ninivitis, ita erit et Filius hominis generationi isti.

31Regina austri surget in judicio cum viris generationis hujus, et condemnabit illos: quia venit a finibus terræ audire sapientiam Salomonis: et ecce plus quam Salomon hic.

32Viri Ninivitæ surgent in judicio cum generatione hac, et condemnabunt illam: quia pœnitentiam egerunt ad prædicationem Jonæ, et ecce plus quam Jonas hic.

33Nemo lucernam accendit, et in abscondito ponit, neque sub modio: sed supra candelabrum, ut qui ingrediuntur, lumen videant.

34Lucerna corporis tui est oculus tuus. Si oculus tuus fuerit simplex, totum corpus tuum lucidum erit: si autem nequam fuerit, etiam corpus tuum tenebrosum erit.

35Vide ergo ne lumen quod in te est, tenebræ sint.

36Si ergo corpus tuum totum lucidum fuerit, non habens aliquam partem tenebrarum, erit lucidum totum, et sicut lucerna fulgoris illuminabit te.

37Et cum loqueretur, rogavit illum quidam pharisæus ut pranderet apud se. Et ingressus recubuit.

38Pharisæus autem cœpit intra se reputans dicere, quare non baptizatus esset ante prandium.

39Et ait Dominus ad illum: Nunc vos pharisæi, quod deforis est calicis et catini, mundatis: quod autem intus est vestrum, plenum est rapina et iniquitate.

40Stulti ! nonne qui fecit quod deforis est, etiam id quod deintus est fecit?

41Verumtamen quod superest, date eleemosynam: et ecce omnia munda sunt vobis.

42Sed væ vobis, pharisæis, quia decimatis mentham, et rutam, et omne olus, et præteritis judicium et caritatem Dei: hæc autem oportuit facere, et illa non omittere.

43Væ vobis, pharisæis, quia diligitis primas cathedras in synagogis, et salutationes in foro.

44Væ vobis, quia estis ut monumenta, quæ non apparent, et homines ambulantes supra, nesciunt.

45Respondens autem quidam ex legisperitis, ait illi: Magister, hæc dicens etiam contumeliam nobis facis.

46At ille ait: Et vobis legisperitis væ: quia oneratis homines oneribus, quæ portare non possunt, et ipsi uno digito vestro non tangitis sarcinas.

47Væ vobis, qui ædificatis monumenta prophetarum: patres autem vestri occiderunt illos.

48Profecto testificamini quod consentitis operibus patrum vestrorum: quoniam ipsi quidem eos occiderunt, vos autem ædificatis eorum sepulchra.

49Propterea et sapientia Dei dixit: Mittam ad illos prophetas, et apostolos, et ex illis occident, et persequentur:

50ut inquiratur sanguis omnium prophetarum, qui effusus est a constitutione mundi a generatione ista,

51a sanguine Abel, usque ad sanguinem Zachariæ, qui periit inter altare et ædem. Ita dico vobis, requiretur ab hac generatione.

52Væ vobis, legisperitis, quia tulistis clavem scientiæ: ipsi non introistis, et eos qui introibant, prohibuistis.

53Cum autem hæc ad illos diceret, cœperunt pharisæi et legisperiti graviter insistere, et os ejus opprimere de multis,

54insidiantes ei, et quærentes aliquid capere de ore ejus, ut accusarent eum.

1And it happened that, while he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

2And he said to them: “When you are praying, say: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.

3Give us this day our daily bread.

4And forgive us our sins, since we also forgive all who are indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

5And he said to them: “Which of you will have a friend and will go to him in the middle of the night, and will say to him: ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

6because a friend of mine has arrived from a journey to me, and I do not have anything to set before him.’

7And from within, he would answer by saying: ‘Do not disturb me. The door is closed now, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you.’

8Yet if he will persevere in knocking, I tell you that, even though he would not get up and give it to him because he is a friend, yet due to his continued insistence, he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

9And so I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

10For everyone who asks, receives. And whoever seeks, finds. And whoever knocks, it shall be opened to him.

11So then, who among you, if he asks his father for bread, he would give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he would give him a serpent, instead of a fish?

12Or if he will ask for an egg, he would offer to him a scorpion?

13Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?”

14And he was casting out a demon, and the man was mute. But when he had cast out the demon, the mute man spoke, and so the crowds were amazed.

15But some of them said, “It is by Beelzebub, the leader of demons, that he casts out demons.”

16And others, testing him, required a sign from heaven of him.

17But when he perceived their thoughts, he said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself will become desolate, and house will fall upon house.

18So then, if Satan is also divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebub that I cast out demons.

19But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your own sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

20Moreover, if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then certainly the kingdom of God has overtaken you.

21When a strong armed man guards his entrance, the things that he possesses are at peace.

22But if a stronger one, overwhelming him, has defeated him, he will take away all his weapons, in which he trusted, and he will distribute his spoils.

23Whoever is not with me, is against me. And whoever does not gather with me, scatters.

24When an unclean spirit has departed from a man, he walks through waterless places, seeking rest. And not finding any, he says: ‘I will return to my house, from which I departed.’

25And when he has arrived, he finds it swept clean and decorated.

26Then he goes, and he takes in seven other spirits with him, more wicked than himself, and they enter and live there. And so, the end of that man is made worse than the beginning.”

27And it happened that, when he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you.”

28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

29Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: “This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

30For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.

31The queen of the South will rise up, at the judgment, with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, more than Solomon is here.

32The men of Nineveh will rise up, at the judgment, with this generation, and they will condemn it. For at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, more than Jonah is here.

33No one lights a candle and places it in hiding, nor under a bushel basket, but upon a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

34Your eye is the light of your body. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. But if it is wicked, then even your body will be darkened.

35Therefore, take care, lest the light that is within you become darkness.

36So then, if your entire body becomes filled with light, not having any part in darkness, then it will be entirely light, and, like a shining lamp, it will illuminate you.”

37And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to eat with him. And going inside, he sat down to eat.

38But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: “Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?”

39And the Lord said to him: “You Pharisees today clean what is outside the cup and the plate, but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity.

40Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside?

41Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you.

42But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore judgment and the charity of God. But these things you ought to have done, without omitting the others.

43Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace.

44Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing it.”

45Then one of the experts in the law, in response, said to him, “Teacher, in saying these things, you bring an insult against us as well.”

46So he said: “And woe to you experts in the law! For you weigh men down with burdens which they are not able to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the weight with even one of your fingers.

47Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!

48Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers.

49Because of this also, the wisdom of God said: I will send to them Prophets and Apostles, and some of these they will kill or persecute,

50so that the blood of all the Prophets, which has been shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation:

51from the blood of Abel, even to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. So I say to you: it will be required of this generation!

52Woe to you, experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter, and those who were entering, you would have prohibited.”

53Then, while he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the experts in the law began to insist strongly that he restrain his mouth about many things.

54And waiting to ambush him, they sought something from his mouth that they might seize upon, in order to accuse him.