Luke 11:13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Prayer is one of the great laws of natural religion. That man is a brute, is a monster, that never prays, that never gives glory to his Maker, nor feels his favour, nor owns his dependence upon him. One great design therefore of Christianity is to assist us in prayer, to enforce the duty upon us, to instruct us in it, and encourage us to expect advantage by it. Now here, I. We find Christ himself praying in a certain place, probably where he used to pray, Luke 11:1. As God, he was prayed to;... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 11:5-13

11:5-13 Jesus said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him towards midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves because a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to set before him'; and suppose his friend answers from within, 'Don't bother me; the door has already been shut and my children are in bed with me; I can't get up and supply you'--I tell you, if he will not rise and supply him because he is his friend, he will rise and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:13

If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children ,.... See Gill on Matthew 7:11 . How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? instead of the Holy Spirit here, the Vulgate Latin version reads, "good Spirit", and so two copies of Beza's; and the Ethiopic version, "the good gift of the Holy Spirit"; and doubtless intends the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, in distinction from, and as preferable to the good things given by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:13

The Holy Spirit - Or, as several MSS. have it, πνευμα αγαθον , the good spirit. See on Matthew 7:11 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

The Lord ' s teaching on the subject of prayer. Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of time or place enables us to fix the scene or date with any exactness. Somewhere in the course of the last journeyings towards Jerusalem, related especially in this Gospel, did this scene and its teaching take place. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Christ teaching his disciples to pray. "He was praying in a certain place." Might not he have dispensed with the special season and act of prayer? Was not his whole life one continuous act of prayer? Did he not always realize that communion with the Father to which praying is the means? Yes; but even he needed the time and the place of prayer. "Made in all things like to his brethren," he, too, required to recruit the energy; he, too, for power with God and men, must lift up his eyes to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Lessons on prayer. Luke takes us from "the one thing needful," which Mary's loving waiting on her Lord illustrates, to a kindred subject, viz. the lessons on prayer which Jesus gave his disciples. He had been enjoying what we should now call a " retreat " with them, and had himself led the devotions of the little band. Struck by the beauty of his petitions, one of his disciples asked him to teach them to pray, as John had taught his disciples. To this appeal Jesus responds at once, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:5-13

Prayer continued. The wisdom of perseverance in prayer is pressed. The Lord introduces his argument by the short parable of the selfish neighbor. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:11-13

The argument from the human fatherhood to the Divine. Jesus Christ revealed the Father to men, and he revealed him as the Father of men. He taught us to address him as such ( Luke 11:2 ), and to feel toward him.as such. He would have us realize that God sustains to us a relationship very closely indeed corresponding to that which a human father sustains to his child. In the text he teaches us that this analogy is so close and so real that we may draw practical inferences from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:13

How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? In St. Matthew we find the last portion of this teaching related as having taken place at a much earlier period of the Lord's ministry. It is more than probable that much of Jesus Christ's general instruction was repeated on more than one occasion. There is an important difference between the words reported by the two evangelists. St. Matthew, instead of the "Holy Spirit," has the more general expression,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 11:5-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:5-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:11-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:13

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