Luke 11
Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer
When did one of Jesus' disciples say to him, "Lord, teach us to pray"? (verse 1)
Who did they reference as someone who taught his disciples? (Verse 1)
2 He said to them, “When you pray, ________:
“‘Father,[a]
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.[b]
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c]
And lead us not into temptation.[d]’” (verse 2-4)
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.[b]
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c]
And lead us not into temptation.[d]’” (verse 2-4)
What did Jesus say to say? (Verse 2-4)
What was Jesus asked about before he said what he said in verses 5-13?
When does the scenario in verse 5 occur? (Verse 5)
What is asked for? (verse 5)
Who has come? (Verse 6)
Is there any food to offer him? (Verse 6) (cor. Luke 9-10 about welcoming)
Supposing the one inside says, "Don't bother me", what might be the reasons why? (Verse 7)
What will he do? Why? (Verse 8)
In Verse 9 Jesus says, “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." -When does Jesus say this? (verse 1-9)
"For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." -When does Jesus say this? (verse 1-10)
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[f] a fish, will give him a snake instead?"
-When does Jesus say this? (verse 1-11)
"Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
-When does Jesus say this? (verse 1-12)
"If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
-When does Jesus say this? (verse 1-13)
Jesus and Beelzebul
What kind of demon was Jesus driving out? (Verse 14)
Did the man speak after the demon left? (Verse 14)
What was the reaction of the crowd? (Verse 14)
What was the reaction of some of them? (Verse 15)
How did others test Jesus? (Verse 16)
Others tested him by asking for a _______ from heaven. (verse 16)
What did Jesus know? (Verse 17)
“Any _______ divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebul. Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. But if I drive out demons by the ___ of God, then the _______ of God has come upon you. (verse 17-20)
When are a strong man's possessions safe? (Verse 21)
What happens when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him? (Verse 22)
What did Jesus talk about before he says, “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder." (1-22)
What are the two or four options in verse 23?
What does an impure spirit do when it comes out of a person? (User 24-28)
What structures are mentioned in verses 17-27?
What are the conditions of the structures? (verse 17-27)
When did a women in the crowd call out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." (verse 1-28)
What does Jesus say in response? (User 28)
Who does Jesus say is Blessed? (verse 28)
What two things do the people do who Jesus says are blessed? (verse 28) (cor. Isaiah 55:9-11, 2 Corinthians 9:10, Isaiah 56, Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8, Luke 13, Luke 17)
The Sign of Jonah
When did Jesus say, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." (verse 29) (cor. verse 16)
What is compared in verse 30?
Who will rise at the judgement with the people of this generation and condemn them? (verse 31)
What did she seek? (Verse 31)
What is here? (Verse 31)
Who will stand up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it? (Verse 32)
What did they repent at? (Verse 32)
What is here? (Verse 32)
The Lamp of the Body
Who lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl? (Verse 33)
Why is it put on its stand? (Verse 33)
What is your eye? (Verse 34)
When your eyes is healthy, what is your whole body? (verse 34)
What happens when your eyes are unhealthy? (Verse 34-35)
What should bee seen to? (Verse 35)
If your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, what will it be like? (Verse 36)
How did this chapter start? (Verse 1-36)
Woes on the Pharisees and the Experts in the Law
When did a Pharisee invite Jesus to eat with him? (Verse 1-37)
Did Jesus go and recline there? (Verse 37)
When was the Pharisee surprised? (Verse 38)
Did Jesus wash before the meal? (Verse 38)
What did Jesus say about Pharisees? (Verse 39-44)
“Now then, you ____________ clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness." (Verse 39)
What does Jesus say is cleaned? (Verse 39)
What is inside? (Verse 39)
"You foolish people! Did not the one who ________ the outside make the inside also?" (40)
How does Jesus say everything will be clean? (Verse 41)
What did the Pharisees give? (Verse 42)
What did the Pharisees neglect? (Verse 42)
What should have they done? (Verse 42)
What do the Pharisees love? (Verse 43)
What are the Pharisees like? (Verse 44)
Someone answered Jesus- what was he an expert in? (Verse 45)
What did this man observe? (verse 45)
Who did Jesus then say woe to? (Verse 46)
Why? (Verse 46)
What do they build? (Verse 47)
Who killed the prophets? (Verse 48)
What does God say about the prophets and apostles he will send them? (verse 49)
What has been shed since the beginning of the world? (Verse 50)
Who are the two people mentioned? (Verse 51)
What is the context for where and when they are mentioned? (Verse 37-51)
What have the experts in the law taken away? (Verse 52) (cor. 37?)
Did Jesus go outside? (verse 53)
Did Jesus run into opposition? (Verse 53)
What did those opposing Jesus want to do? (Verse 54)
Who does Jesus speak of?
How many times does Jesus speak of each person?
Who does Jesus speak to?
How many times does Jesus say "woe"?
What is the reason for each "woe"?
When does Jesus speak of tombs?
When does Jesus speak of generations?
Thoughts
Who was the queen mentioned in verse 31?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Queen-of-the-South.html ??
“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy,[g] your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy,[h] your body also is full of darkness. 35 See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
possible interpretation
http://www.ministrysamples.org/excerpts/THE-MEANING-OF-THE-LAMPSTAND.HTML
but maybe not completely accurate...
https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/lamp-lampstand/
lets take the phrase "Your eye is the lamp of your body" and replace all the "lamps" with "your eyes".
“No one lights your eyes and puts your eyes in a place where your eyes will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead your eyes are put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light."
"Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy,[g] your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy,[h] your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
What does the scene in verse 37-44 look like?
Who is there?
What does Jesus say about the person who invited him to dinner?
Looking outside of time,
What would it look like in verse 47 if their ancestors had just killed the prophets and then the prophets' tombs were constructed by their descendants?
Correlation
Do the eyes relate to the body of Christ?
Verse 33-36
1 Corinthians 12:27?
Romans 12:4-5?
Ephesians 5:23?
Ephesians 2:19-22?
1 Corinthians 12:13?
Colossians 2:19?
Galatians 3:27?
Ephesians 4:25?
Colossians 3:15?
What effects the eyes? How should we stand in order to allow the light we have been given to shine to others and have them shine?
1 Cor. 12:21 - Gen. 30:31 - 1 Corinthians 15:33 - Ephesians 5 - Luke 11 verse 33-36
Application
‘Father,[a]
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.[b]
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c]
And lead us not into temptation
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.[b]
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c]
And lead us not into temptation
apply "be generous to the poor"
Luke 11New International Version (NIV)
Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer
11 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
2 He said to them, “When you pray, say:
5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ 7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[e] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[f] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Jesus and Beelzebul
14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. 15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.” 16 Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. 18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebul. 19 Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
21 “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder.
23 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
24 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ 25 When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. 26 Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first.”
27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”
28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
The Sign of Jonah
29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom; and now something greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here.
The Lamp of the Body
33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy,[g] your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy,[h] your body also is full of darkness. 35 See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. 36 Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
Woes on the Pharisees and the Experts in the Law
37 When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. 38 But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40 You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
42 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
43 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.
44 “Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”
45 One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also.”
46 Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
47 “Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them. 48 So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. 49 Because of this, God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.’ 50 Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.
52 “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
53 When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, 54 waiting to catch him in something he might say.
Footnotes:
- Luke 11:2 Some manuscripts Our Father in heaven
- Luke 11:2 Some manuscripts come. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
- Luke 11:4 Greek everyone who is indebted to us
- Luke 11:4 Some manuscripts temptation, but deliver us from the evil one
- Luke 11:8 Or yet to preserve his good name
- Luke 11:11 Some manuscripts for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for
- Luke 11:34 The Greek for healthy here implies generous.
- Luke 11:34 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy.
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