Luke 11 Bible study: Lord, teach us to pray

"When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”" (11:1) (tap pray). Luke tells of Jesus praying again and again, and Favor's Luke 3 follows it from his baptism in Praying when the sky was opened. Jesus answers, "When you pray, say" (11:2), and gives them words: "Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven" (11:2) (tap Father), "Give us day by day our daily bread" (11:3), and "Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (11:4). Favor's Matthew 6 sets these words beside Matthew's, line by line, in The prayer in Matthew and in Luke; these notes don't repeat it. Then Jesus goes on about asking. He tells of a friend at midnight (11:5-8) (tap persistence), and says, "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you." (11:9) (tap seeking). Here is what almost everyone misses: the words he gives them begin with "Our Father" (11:2), and his teaching on asking ends with a father too: "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?" (11:13) (tap ask). Favor's Matthew 7 sets 11:13 beside Matthew 7:11 in Luke's tellings, side by side; these notes don't repeat it, and don't say how the two fit together.

Exodus 8:19→leads toLuke 11:20

When they couldn't make lice, Pharaoh's magicians told him, "This is God’s finger" (8:19). When some said Jesus cast out demons "by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons" (Luke 11:15), he answered, "But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you" (Luke 11:20). In Matthew the same saying reads "by the Spirit of God" (Matthew 12:28). In the World English Bible, "God’s finger" is said only here, of the stone tablets (31:18; Deuteronomy 9:10), and by Jesus. Jesus doesn't name Exodus, so this link is a reading: some hear the magicians' words behind his; others read his words simply as the Old Testament's way of speaking of God's own work, as with the tablets.

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Strong's: "a ‘father’ (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)". The words Jesus gives his disciples begin, "Our Father in heaven" (11:2). Then he asks, "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?" (11:11), and ends, "how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" (11:13). The same Greek word is behind all three. Later in the chapter it is the fathers of "your fathers killed them" (11:47) and of "the works of your fathers" (11:48). Luke's Greek has the word 55 times (counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates). Favor's Matthew 5 studies it where Matthew first uses it of God.