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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 11:11-12

Luke 11:11-12. If a son shall ask bread of any of you Further to assist your faith on these occasions, reflect upon the workings of your own hearts toward your offspring. Let any of you, that is a father, and knows the heart of a father, a father’s affection to, and care for, a child, say, if his son ask bread to satisfy his hunger, will he give him a stone In the shape of a loaf? or, If he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent Which has some resemblance of a fish; or if he ask an... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 11:5-13

44. Prayers of request (Matthew 7:7-12; Luke 11:5-13)Jesus gave two illustrations to show his followers that they can put their requests to God confidently. Even a tired and uncooperative neighbour can be persuaded by a person’s persistence into giving him what he needs. How much more will God, who is a loving Father, supply all the needs of his children (Luke 11:5-10). Christians do not have to beg from a God who is unwilling to give. They go to God as children go to their father, confident... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 11:11

If , &c. = Shall a son ask, &c. any = which. if, &c. App-118 . a fish = a fish also for = instead. Greek. anti. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 11:11

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?The teaching here is that carnal man will honor the request of his children, and that it must be received that God, whose loving righteousness is infinitely beyond any loving-kindness of a mere earthly father, will, in a far greater degree, respond to the just petitions of his spiritual children. The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 11:1-13

3. The relation of disciples to God the Father 11:1-13Jesus continued to point out the disciple’s proper relationships. Having explained their relation to their neighbors (Luke 10:25-37) and to Himself (Luke 10:38-42), He now instructed them on their relation to their heavenly Father. This pericope, as the former one, clarifies the meaning of the first commandment (Luke 10:27).This whole section consists of teaching on prayer. Luke presented prayer as a major subject in which Jesus instructed... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 11:9-13

Encouragements to pray 11:9-13Jesus continue His instruction by providing further encouragement to ask of God in prayer. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 11:11-12

These two examples further enforce the point that God will respond to our prayers, and they stress that He will do so kindly (cf. Matthew 7:9-10). Since God is our heavenly Father, He will do no less than a normal earthly father would do. Even a good earthly father would not give his son who asked for a fish or an egg a snake or a scorpion. A snake can look like a fish, and scorpions sometimes bred in eggs. [Note: Edersheim, 2:242.] Such a response would be cruel rather than loving since the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:1-54

The Lord’s Prayer. The Sign of Jonah1-4. The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-15). See on Mt. If the Lord’s Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as in the case of the Beatitudes), is manifestly inferior to St. Matthew’s. Of the seven petitions he omits two—the third (’Thy will be done,’ etc.), and the seventh (’but deliver us from the evil one’: see the RV). In place of Mt’s beautiful opening, ’Our Father in the heavens,’ he has simply,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 11:9-13

(9-13) Ask, and it shall be given you.—See Notes on Matthew 7:7-11; but note (1) the greater impressiveness of the opening words, “And I say unto you, . . . “as connected with the previous illustration; and (2) the addition of the “scorpion” to the “serpent,” as though the recent combination of the two words in Luke 10:19 had so associated them that the one was naturally followed by the other. read more

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