luke 11

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Luk 11 outline:

Luk 11:1-4, The Lord’s Prayer
Luk 11:5-13, Parable of the friend who comes at midnight + persistence in prayer
Luk 11:14-26, Authority to cast out demons + guarding your house
Luk 11:27-28, Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it
Luk 11:29-32, The sign of the prophet Jonah
Luk 11:33-36, Take heed that the lamp of the body is good
Luk 11:37-54, Woe to the Pharisees and lawyers

Luk 11 chiastic structures:

The smaller structures overlap each other, but completing them revealed the larger structure of the whole chapter:

Luk 11:4b-13 reverse parallelism

1a) Luk 11:4b, For we also forgive/ Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one;

1b) Luk 11:5-8, The parable of the friend at midnight/ he will give his friend what he asks;

1c) Luk 11:9, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you;

2c) Luk 11:10, For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened;

2b) Luk 11:11-12, If a son asks his father for bread + fish + egg, will he give him a stone + serpent + scorpion?

2a) Luk 11:13, How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.

Luk 11:13-26 chiastic structure

1a) Luk 11:13, How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him;

1b) Luk 11:14, He cast out a demon from a mute, and the mute man spoke + multitudes marveled;

1c) Luk 11:15-16, But some blasphemed Him + others tested Him, seeking a sign;

1d) Luk 11:17-18a, Every divided kingdom + house falls/ If Satan is divided, how does he stand;

1e) Luk 11:18b-19a, Since you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub/ if that were true;

central axis) Luk 11:19b, “By whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges;”

2e) Luk 11:20, But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you;

2d) Luk 11:21-22, Plundering a strong man’s house;

2c) Luk 11:23, He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters;

2b) Luk 11:24a, When an unclean spirit departs from a man;

2a) Luk 11:24b-26, It returns to find the house empty/ the man’s last state worse than his first.

Luk 11:1-54 reverse parallelism

1a) Luk 11:1-4, The Lord’s Prayer: keeping the inside of the cup clean;

1b) Luk 11:4b-14, Deliver us from the evil one/ your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask;

1c) Luk 11:15-26, Seeking a sign + this generation judged + the body inhabited by unclean spirits;

1) Luk 11:15-16, But some blasphemed Him + others tested Him, seeking a sign;
2) Luk 11:17-20, The testimony of authority over unclean spirits + your sons will be your judges (in the judgment);
3) Luk 11:21-26, Plundering a strong man’s house/ his last state worse than his first;

1d) Luk 11:27, A woman blessed Yeshua’s mother for bearing + nursing Him;

2d) Luk 11:28, But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

2c) Luk 11:29-36, Seeking a sign + this generation judged + when the body is full of darkness;

1) Luk 11:29-30, The evil generation seeks a sign/ no sign but that of the prophet Jonah;
2) Luk 11:31-32, Queen of the South + Nineveh will condemn this generation in the judgment;
3) Luk 11:33-34, When your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness;

2b) Luk 11:35-36, When your whole body is full of light, as the bright shining of a lamp;

2a) Luk 11:37-54, Pharisees + lawyers rebuked for focusing on cleaning the outside of the cup.

Please meditate on the matching pairs for the wisdom the Holy Spirit will reveal to you! ♥