Luke 11:1-33

1Now Yeshua was praying in a certain place. When He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Master, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

2Then Yeshua said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Father, sanctified be Your Name, Your kingdom come.

3Give us each day our daily bread.

4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

5Then Yeshua said to them, “Which of you has a friend and will go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

6because a friend of mine has come to me on his journey and I have nothing to set before him.’

7Then from within he may answer, saying, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

8I tell you, even if the friend will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

9“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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.’

11What father, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

12And if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Ruach ha-Kodesh to those who ask Him!”

14Now Yeshua was driving out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute one spoke and the crowds were amazed.

15But some among them said, “By beelzebul, the ruler of demons, He drives out demons.”

16Others, testing Him, were demanding from Him a sign from heaven.

17But Yeshua, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and a house against a house falls.

18Now if satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say by beelzebul I drive out the demons.

19But if by beelzebul I drive out demons, by whom do your sons drive them out? For this reason, they will be your judges.

20But if by the finger of God I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

21“When a strong one, fully-armed, protects his own estate, his possessions are safe.

22But as soon as someone stronger than he attacks and overpowers him, then he takes away the armor that he had trusted in and divides up his plunder.

23He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

24“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places looking for rest. Not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house where I came from.’

25And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order.

26Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And that man’s last condition becomes worse than the first.”

27Then as Yeshua was saying these things, a certain woman in the crowd, raising her voice, said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that carried You and the breasts that nursed You!”

28But He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

29With the crowds increasing, Yeshua began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation. It demands a sign, yet no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

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

31The Queen of the South will rise up at the Judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

32The men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation. And indeed, one greater than Jonah is here.

33“No one lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on the lampstand so that those entering may see the light.