Luke 11:13
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Note d'étude
Study Note
Jesus' argument from lesser to greater (qal wa-homer) deploys the analogy of a human father who gives good gifts to his children to establish that the heavenly Father will 'much more' give the Holy Spirit to those who ask. The Lukan version (Holy Spirit) differs from Matthew 7:11's parallel ('good things'), suggesting either Luke has adapted the Q tradition or preserves a distinct version — either way, the gift of the Spirit becomes Luke's paradigmatic expression of divine benevolence. The verse contextualizes the Lord's Prayer (vv. 2–4) and the persistent prayer parables (vv. 5–8) within a pneumatological horizon: the ultimate answer to petitionary prayer is not material provision but the Spirit's presence. This pneumatological focus anticipates Pentecost (Acts 2) as the ultimate fulfillment of prayer in Luke's two-volume narrative.
Autres traductions
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
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