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          DASV: Luke 11    

1 Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he finished,
one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray,
even as John also taught his disciples."
2 He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be
your name. Your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins; for we also forgive everyone who has
sinned against us. And do not lead us into temptation."

5 Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and
he goes to him at midnight, and says to him, 'Friend, lend me
three loaves of bread;
6 for a friend of mine who was taking a trip has come to visit
me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
7 Then the person within the house will answer, 'Don't bother me.
The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed.
I cannot rise and give it to you.'
8 I say to you, though he will not get up and give it to him
because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he
will get up and give him whatever he needs.
9 I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives; and everyone who seeks
finds; and to everyone who knocks it will be opened.
11 Which of you fathers if his son asks for a fish, will he
give him a serpent?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

14 Now Jesus was casting out a demon that was causing a person
to be mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man began to
speak; and the crowd was amazed.
15 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebub,
the prince of the demons."
16 Others, testing him, demanded a sign from heaven from him.
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every
kingdom divided against itself will be destroyed; and a
divided house falls.
18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom
stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out
demons by Beelzebub.
19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your
sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is
the kingdom of God come upon you.
21 When the strong man fully armed guards his own palace,
his goods are safe.
22 But when someone stronger than he attacks him, and
overcomes him, he strips him of his armor that he trusted
in, and splits up his spoils.
23 He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not
gather with me scatters.
24 The unclean spirit when it has gone out of the person,
passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none,
it says, 'I will go back to my house that I came out of.'
25 When it returns, it finds the place swept and put in order.
26 Then it goes, and takes with it seven other spirits more
evil than itself; and they enter and dwell there. Now the
last state of that person is worse than the first."

27 As Jesus said these things, a certain woman from the crowd
shouted out to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you,
and the breasts which nursed you."
28 But he replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the
word of God, and defend it."
29 When the crowds were gathering to him, he began to say,
"This generation is an evil generation, that seeks after a
sign; but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
30 For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so
also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment against
the people of this generation, and will condemn them because
she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of
Solomon; and now someone greater than Solomon is here.
32 The people of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment against
this generation, and will condemn it because they repented at
the preaching of Jonah; and now someone greater than Jonah
is here.

33 No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under
a basket, but on the stand, that those who enter in may see
the light.
34 The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is healthy,
your whole body is full of light; but when it is bad, your
body is full of darkness.
35 Therefore make sure that the light that is in you is not
darkness.
36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part
in the dark, it will be totally full of light, as when the
lamp with its bright shining gives you light.

37 Now as Jesus spoke, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him.
He went in, and reclined at the table.
38 When the Pharisee saw it, he was amazed that he did not
first wash up before dinner.
39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the
outside of the cup and the plate; but inside you are full
of greed and wickedness.
40 You foolish ones, did not the one who made the outside
also make the inside?
41 But give donations to the poor from that which is within
you; and all things will be clean for you.
42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint, rue and
every little herb, but neglect justice and the love of
God; but these you ought to have done, and not left the
other undone.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in
the synagogues, and the honored greetings in the marketplaces.
44 Woe to you! For you are like the unmarked graves that
people walk over without even realizing it.

45 One of the scribes answered him, "Teacher, in saying
this you insult us also."
46 But he said, "Woe to you scribes also! For you load people
with burdens difficult to be carried, yet you yourselves
never touch the burden with even one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets,
whom your forefathers killed.
48 So you are witnesses and give consent to the works
of your forefathers because they killed them, and now
you build their tombs.
49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send
to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they
will kill and persecute.'
50 Therefore the blood of all the prophets, which have
been shed from the foundation of the world, may be
charged against this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who
was murdered between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes,
I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.
52 Woe to you scribes! For you take away the key of
knowledge yet you do not enter in yourselves, and yet
you hinder those who are trying to enter."

53 When he went out of there, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to strongly oppose him, and to
cross-examine him about many things,
54 trying to trap him with anything coming out of his mouth.

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