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Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 11:1-54

Christ's Lessons in Prayer Luke 11:1 The disciples had all prayed many times, and yet they came to Jesus with this request. For they were not satisfied with their praying. Their hearts were full of longings for which they could not find utterance, and the silence in which they dwelt oppressed them. For answer, Jesus began by teaching them how not to pray. It may well be, that with such bad examples of devotion in their synagogues and streets, the very habits of devotion which they had formed... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Luke 11:1-54

CHAPTER 11 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1-4 .) 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5-10 ) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11-13 ) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. (Luke 11:14-23 ) 5. The Return of the Unclean Spirit. (Luke 11:23-26 ) 6. The Blessedness of Hearing the Word. (Luke 11:27-28 ) 7. The Sign of Jonas. (Luke 11:29-32 ) 8. The Single Eye. (Luke 11:33-36 ) 9. The Pharisees Exposed and Denounced. (Luke 11:37-44 ) 10. The Lawyers Exposed... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:1-54

Valuable Instruction as to Prayer (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His example awakened the exercise of at least one of His disciples to desire the Lord to them to pray, for the disciples remembered that John the Baptist taught his disciples to pray. The prayer the Lord taught (vs.2-4) corresponds to Matthew 6:9-13 and whether it is the same occasion or not, Luke... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Luke 11:1-54

DOCTRINE OF PRAYER We name this lesson after its chief topic, for as the Scofield Bible says, we have here “the central New Testament passage on prayer.” The disciples’ request (Luke 11:1 ) is answered first by a model prayer (Luke 11:2-4 ), then by a story or parable about prayer (Luke 11:5-10 ), and finally by setting before them the chief object of prayer (Luke 11:11-13 ). The “model” contains fundamental principles of prayer: (1) the right relationship, that of a son to a father; (2) the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Luke 11:1-54

Pious At the Wrong Places Luk 11:42 In other words, you are pious at the wrong places. That is the point. It applies to us all. We think we make up for lack of the right, and complete piety by fussing about a thousand things that are secondary, subordinate, and hardly of any consequence. Thus man writes his poor programme of service. He has his little fads and likings and prejudices, and if you will allow him to cobble away at these he thinks he is about as good as anybody else. When men work... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Luke 11:37-41

(37) And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him. And he went in, and sat down to meat. (38) And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. (39) And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. (40) Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also? (41) But rather give alms of such things as... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:37-54

37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Luke 11:1-99

Luke 11 ONCE AGAIN WE find the Lord in prayer, and this awakened in His disciples a desire to be taught to pray. As yet they did not possess the Spirit as we do today, and hence “praying in the Holy Ghost” ( Jud_1:20 ), and the help and intercession of the Spirit, of which Rom_8:26 , Rom_8:27 , speaks, could not be known by them as we may know it. At this period the Lord was their “Comforter” and Guide from without: we have “another Comforter,” who is within. In response, the Lord gave them... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Luke 11:37-41

Woes upon the Pharisees and. Lawyers. The Pharisee's offense: v. 37. And as He spake, a certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him; and He went in and. sat down to meat. v. 38. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner. v. 39. And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. v. 40. Ye fools, did not He that made that which is without... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Luke 11:37-54

3. Two Manner of Enemies (Luke 11:37-54)37And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine [breakfast, ἀριστήσῃ] with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat [reclined]. 38And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but 40your inward part is full of ravening [rapacity] and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he, 41that made that which is without,... read more