Luke 11


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. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.

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 chapter opens with Jesus praying in "a certain place" and being asked to teach his disciples to pray, as John the Baptist had taught his disciples. In reply Jesus taught them the model prayer known generally as the Lord's Prayer.

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

The text here mirrors Luke's text at :

God's responsiveness to persistent prayer can be understood in the light of a parable about persistence in seeking help from a neighbour. German theologian Heinrich Meyer notes that Jesus argues a minori ad majus, a mode of reasoning similar to the Kal vachomer reasoning of Hillel the Elder.

He who does not gather with me scatters

, also.
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".