Luke 11:11-40

¹¹And what father is there, among you, who, if his son ask for bread, will give him a stone? or if he ask for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

¹²or, if he ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

¹³If ye then, though 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!

¹⁴And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes wondered.

¹⁵But some of them said, He casteth out the demons through Beelzebul, the prince of the demons;

¹⁶and others, to make trial of him, asked of him a sign from heaven.

¹⁷But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and house divided against house falleth.

¹⁸And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? For ye say that I cast out the demons through Beelzebul.

¹⁹But if I cast out the demons through Beelzebul, through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be judges of you.

²⁰But if I cast out the demons through the finger of God, then hath the kingdom of God already come to you.

²¹When a strong man armed guardeth his palace, his goods are in peace;

²²but when one stronger than he cometh upon him and overcometh him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

²³He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

²⁴When the unclean spirit is gone out from a man, it goeth through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, it saith, I will return to my house whence I came out.

²⁵And on coming, it findeth it swept and put in order.

²⁶Then it goeth, and taketh with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

²⁷And it came to pass, as he was saying these things, that a certain woman lifted up her voice from the crowd, and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the breasts from which thou drewest nourishment.

²⁸But he said, Blessed rather are they that hear the word of God and keep it.

²⁹And when the crowds were thronging about him, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation; it seeketh a sign; and no sign will be given it, but the sign of Jonah.

³⁰For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of man be to this generation.

³¹The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! something more than Solomon is here.

³²The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and lo! something more than Jonah is here.

³³No one when he has lighted a lamp, puts it into a secret place, or under the bushel, but on the lamp-stand, that they who come in may see the light.

³⁴The lamp of the body is thine eye. When thine eye is clear, thy whole body also is in the light; but when it is disordered, thy body also is in darkness.

³⁵Take heed therefore, that the light which is within thee be not darkness.

³⁶If then thy whole body is enlightened, having no part dark, the whole will be as fully enlightened, as when a lamp with its bright shining giveth thee light.

³⁷And when he had done speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. And he went in and reclined at the table.

³⁸And the Pharisee, seeing it, wondered that he did not bathe before dinner.

³⁹But the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inside is full of rapacity and wickedness.

⁴⁰Fools, did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?