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Fragment of Uncial 0191, 6th century bilingual Greek-Coptic manuscript of the Gospels with text of Luke 11:51-12:5
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Luke 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer and several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ. [1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. [2]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek and divided into 54 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

The Lord's Prayer

Luke 11:2 in Codex Sinaiticus. Codex Sinaiticus-small.jpg
Luke 11:2 in Codex Sinaiticus.

The chapter opens with Jesus praying in "a certain place" and being asked by one of his disciples to teach them to pray, as John the Baptist had taught his disciples. [3] In reply Jesus taught them the model prayer [4] known generally as the Lord's Prayer. Writers looking at Matthew's account (Matthew 6:9–13) alongside Luke's account have argued that the disciple must have been a later recruit to Jesus' entourage and therefore not present at the Sermon on the Mount. [5]

A friend comes at midnight

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; and he will answer from within and say, 'Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you'?" [6]
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable of the friend at night, from the Bowyer Bible Teachings of Jesus 17 of 40. ask and ye shall receive. Jan Luyken etching. Bowyer Bible.gif
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable of the friend at night, from the Bowyer Bible

For Luke, the Lord's Prayer has a strongly eschatological focus: it prays for the coming of the Kingdom of God and maintaining that until such coming, Jesus' disciples "should live under its shadow and out of its strength". So Luke follows on from the prayer with a parable which speaks of the need for urgent and insistent prayer, portrayed through "a determined petition for bread". The parable indicates that God is not indifferent during this time of waiting, and Eric Franklin observes that any suggestion to the contrary "arises out of a misreading of the signs of the times". [7]

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

Ask, and it will be given to you [8]
(Greek : αἰτεῖτε και δοθήσεται ὑμῖν, aiteite kai dothēsetai hymin)

The text here mirrors Luke's text at 6:38:

Give, and it will be given to you
(δίδοτε καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν, didote kai dothēsetai hymin)

God's responsiveness to persistent prayer can be understood in the light of the parable of the friend at midnight and the persistence in seeking help which it represents.

He who does not gather with me scatters

The Latin text of Luke 10:41-11:5 in Codex Claromontanus V, from 4th or 5th century. Codex Claromontanus V (f. 166r).JPG
The Latin text of Luke 10:41-11:5 in Codex Claromontanus V, from 4th or 5th century.

Luke 11:23b, also Matthew 12:30.

Baptist theologian John Gill suggests that "the allusion is either to the gathering of the sheep into the fold, and the scattering of them by the wolf; or to the gathering of the wheat, and binding it in sheaves, and bringing it home in harvest; and to the scattering of the wheat loose in the field, whereby it is lost". [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Luke 11:1
  4. ↑ Sub-heading at Luke 11:1 in the New King James Version
  5. ↑ Meyer, H. A. W. (1873), Meyer's NT Commentary on Luke 11, translated from the German sixth edition, accessed 9 January 2022
  6. ↑ Luke 11:5–7: NKJV
  7. ↑ Franklin, E., 58. Luke in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), The Oxford Bible Commentary, p. 943
  8. ↑ Luke 11:9
  9. ↑ Gill, J. (1746–48), Gill's Exposition on Luke 11, accessed 17 June 2018
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