 | John P. Meier - 1980 - 394 ページ
...who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 'Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? loOr if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good... | |
 | W. Bingham Hunter - 1986 - 226 ページ
...who does nothing from mere whim or arbitrary caprice. Thus Jesus says, Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more... | |
 | Pope Benedict XVI - 1986 - 166 ページ
...meant by answers to prayer.22 Luke transmits one of the Lord's words which puts it very precisely: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"... | |
 | Gabriel Fackre - 1987 - 384 ページ
...Matthew 7:11 that acknowledges that fact of the fall and its crippling effects can yet go on to say, "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more . . ." (Matt. 7:11). ' We have reviewed a set of texts in both Old... | |
 | Donald M. Lewis - 1990 - 328 ページ
...he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his sons asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more... | |
 | Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 ページ
...to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 "If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he 4 he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 "Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?... | |
 | Søren Kierkegaard - 1990 - 588 ページ
...is satisfied. This is why the words in that metaphorical saying with which we began read as follows: "If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"288... | |
 | Robert Lawson Brawley - 1990 - 264 ページ
...baptism from Luke 3: 16. The aorist in Acts 1:4 then stretches back to Jesus' promise in Luke 11:13: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him"... | |
 | Bernard Brandon Scott - 1989 - 484 ページ
...'shamelessness.* The unit's conclusion, v. 13, where the 'how much more" argument is expressed, reads, 'If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more . . .* Here the 'who are evil" corresponds exactly to the description... | |
 | Joseph A. Fitzmyer - 1991 - 204 ページ
...for example, the Lucan addition of "the Holy Spirit" to Jesus' saying about prayer being answered: "If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your own children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask... | |
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Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 
