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sinceἐπειδὴa friendφίλοςof mineμουhas arrivedπαρεγένετοfromἐξa journeyὁδοῦtoπρόςme,μεandκαὶI do notοὐκhaveἔχωanythingὃto set beforeπαραθήσωhim’;αὐτῷ
Luke 11:6
Study it in the app“since a friend of mine has arrived from a journey to me, and I do not have anything to set before him’;”
With the Greek beneath
Luke 11:6, word by word
- a friendφίλοςphilos
friend
Friend.
Where else “philos” appears- has arrivedπαρεγένετοparegeneto
arrive, come
Arrive, come, be present.
Where else “paregeneto” appears- a journeyὁδοῦhodou
road
The route by which one goes from one place to another, or the trip itself.
Where else “hodou” appears- haveἔχωechō
have
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echō” appears- to set beforeπαραθήσωparathēsō
set before
To lay something before someone, like food.
Where else “parathēsō” appears
The context
5And he said to them, “Which of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
6 · This verse (above)
7and that one from inside answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?
To study Luke 11 in a group
1. What it says
When the disciples ask to be taught to pray, what does Jesus tell them to say, and what stories does he add? (vv. 1-13)
2. What it means
Jesus says “ask, seek, knock” and compares God to a father who gives good gifts. What does that teach about what God is like? (vv. 9-13)
3. How I live it
What concrete thing would you like to ask God today, with the trust a child has when speaking to a father?