\subsection{Luke 11} \subsubsection{Instructions on Prayer} \VS{1} And it came to pass when he was in the place where he prayed, as he stopped, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, just as \Ioannes also taught his disciples. \VS{2} So he said to them: When you pray, be saying: \begin{verse} Father, let\fnImperative{} your name be holy \\ Your kingdom come \\ \VS{3} Be giving to us each day our \epiousios\fnEpiousios{} bread \\ \VS{4} And forgive us our sins, \\ For we also forgive all [those having] come short towards us. \\ And lead us not into [the] test. \end{verse} \VS{5} And he said to them: Who among you has [a] friend, and he proceeds to him during the night and he says to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, \VS{6} since my friend has come from the road to me and I do not have anything to set before him. \VS{7} And that [one] from inside answering said: Be not causing trouble for me, I have already shut the door, and my children are with me in the bed. I am unable having arisen to give [anything[ to you. \VS{8} I say to you, if he will not give to him [the loaves] having arisen because he is his friend, because of his insistence will he having arisen give whatever he needs. \VS{9} And I say to you, Be asking, and it will be given you; be seeking, and you will find; be knocking, and it will be opened to you. \VS{10} For everyone asking receives, and [everyone] seeking finds, and to [everyone] knocking it will be opened. \VS{11} But from which father among you will his son request [a] fish, but instead of [a] fish will give him [a] snake? \VS{12} Or he also request [an] egg, will he give him [a] scorpion? \VS{13} If therefore you being wicked\fnPoneros{} know good gifts to give to your children, how much more will the father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking him. \subsubsection{\Iesous and Beelzebub} \VS{14} And he was casting out [a] demon, and it was mute, so it came [about] when the demon came out the mute spoke, and the crowds marveled. \VS{15} But some of them said: In Beelzeboul the ruler of demons he casts out demons. \VS{16} And others testing [him] were seeking [a] sign; from heaven from him. \VS{17} But he having known their thoughts said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself is laid wasted, and house against house falls. \VS{18} Now if Satan be divided against himself, how does his kingdom stand? For you say I cast out demons in Beezeboul. \VS{19} But if I cast out demons in Beezeboul, in whom do your sons cast [them] out? By this they become your judges. \VS{20} But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. \VS{21} But whenever the strong being fully armed guards his own court, his possessions are in peace. \VS{22} But if one stronger than him having entered conquer him, he will take his full armor against whom he had prevailed, and will distribute the spoils. \VS{23} The [one] not being with me is against me, and the [one] not gathering with me scatters. \subsubsection{Response to \Iesous's Work} \VS{24} Whenever the unclean spirit goes out from the person\fnAnthropos{}, he goes through dry places seeking rest, and not finding [any] he says: I will return to the house whence I departed. \VS{25} And having come he finds [it] swept and decorated. \VS{26} Then he goes and gathers seven other demons more wicked\fnPoneros{} than himself, and having entered they set up house there, and the last [state] of that person\fnAnthropos{} becomes worse than the first. \subsubsection{The Sign of \Iona} \VS{27} Now it came to pass when he was saying these [things a] certain woman having lifted up [her] voice said: Blessed [is] the belly\footnote{womb} that bore you and the breasts which gave you suck. \VS{28} But he said: On the contrary, blessed are those hearing the word\fnLogos{} of God and guarding [it]. \VS{29} Now when the crowds were gathered even more he began to be saying: This generation is [a] wicked\fnPoneros{} generation; it seeks [a] sign, and [a] sign will not be given it except the sign of \Iona. \VS{30} For just as \Iona became [a] sign to the Ninevites, thus will also the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{} be to this pernicious generation. \VS{31} [The] queen of the south will arise in the judgment with the men\fnAner{} of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold [one] greater than Solomon [is] here. \VS{32} [The] men\fnAner{} of Ninevah will arise in the judgment with this generation and condemn them; for they repented upon the preaching of \Iona, and behold [one] greater than \Iona [is] here. \subsubsection{Internal Light} \VS{33} No one having lit [a] lamp places it in [a] hidden place nor under the peck measure, but upon the lampstand, in order that those entering the radiance might see. \VS{34} The light of the body is your eye. Whenever your eye be clear\footnote{or ``sound,'' ``healthy,'' ``single,'' ``simple''}, even your whole body is full of light. But whenever it be wicked\fnPoneros{}, your body also [is] dark. \VS{35} Be looking therefore that the light in you be not darkness. \VS{36} If therefore your whole body be full of light, not having any part dark, it will all be full of light, as when the lamp illumines you with light. \subsubsection{Rebuking the Pharisees and Experts in the Law} \VS{37} Now when he spoke [a] Pharisee asked him to breakfast with him; so having entered he reclined. \VS{38} Now the Pharisee when he saw marveled that he did not first wash before breakfast. \VS{39} So the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but the inside [of you] is full of robbery and wickedness\fnPoneros{}. \VS{40} Ignorant [ones], doesn't the [one] doing the outside also do the inside? \VS{41} Nevertheless give what is inside to charitable giving and behold all in you is pure. \VS{42} But woe to you Pharisees, for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and agape-love of God. But it was necessary to do these not leaving the others undone. \VS{43} But woe to you Pharisees, for you agape-love the first seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. \VS{44} Woe to you, for you are as the unseen grave, and men walking above do not know [of it]. \VS{45} But answering one of the lawyers says to him: Teacher, saying these [things] you treat us insolently. \VS{46} But he said: And woe also to you lawyers, for you burden men with burdens difficult to carry, and you with one [of your] fingers do not touch these burdens. \VS{47} Woe to you, that build the graves of the prophets, for your fathers killed them. \VS{48} Therefore are you witnesses and you agree with the deeds [of your] fathers, for they killed them, and you build their graves. \VS{49} And because of this the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of them they kill and persecute, \VS{50} in order that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation, \VS{51} from the blood of Abel until [the] blood of Zacharius, the [one] destroyed between the altar and the house. Yes, I say to you, it will be required from this generation. \VS{52} Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter and those entering you prevent\footnote{or ``hinder''}. \VS{53} And then when he departed the scribes and the Pharisees began to have grudge terribly, and to be closely interrogating him, \VS{54} lying in wait to catch something from his mouth.