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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們中間作父親的，哪有兒子求魚，反拿蛇給他呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 中 间 作 父 亲 的 ， 谁 有 儿 子 求 饼 ， 反 给 他 石 头 呢 ？ 求 鱼 ， 反 拿 蛇 当 鱼 给 他 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹ One time Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his followers said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his followers." ² Jesus said to them, "When you pray, say: ‘Father, may your name always be kept holy. May your kingdom come. ³ Give us the food we need for each day. ⁴ Forgive us for our sins, because we forgive everyone who has done wrong to us. And do not cause us to be tempted.'" ⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "Suppose one of you went to your friend's house at midnight and said to him, ‘Friend, loan me three loaves of bread. ⁶ A friend of mine has come into town to visit me, but I have nothing for him to eat.' ⁷ Your friend inside the house answers, ‘Don't bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.' ⁸ I tell you, if friendship is not enough to make him get up to give you the bread, your boldness will make him get up and give you whatever you need. ⁹ So I tell you, ask, and God will give to you. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will open for you. ¹⁰ Yes, everyone who asks will receive. The one who searches will find. And everyone who knocks will have the door opened.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a son: Isaiah 49:15, Matthew 7:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:6 - gifts Deuteronomy 28:54 - his children Psalms 103:13 - Like Lamentations 3:16 - gravel Matthew 6:32 - for your Matthew 7:11 - how 1 Timothy 5:8 - and specially James 5:16 - The effectual

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."

Genesis 11:3
They said to each other, "Let's make bricks and bake them to make them hard." So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."

Genesis 11:32
Terah lived to be 205 years old, and then he died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
Let our sons in their youth grow like plants. Let our daughters be like the decorated stones in the Temple.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father,.... Our Lord illustrates and confirms what he had said before by an instance common among men: the relation between a father and a son is natural, and it is very near; and it is usual for a son, when hungry, and at the proper times of meals, to ask bread of his father: and when he does,

will he give him a stone? should he do so, he would show that his heart was as hard, or harder than the stone he gives:

or if he ask a fish, will he, for a fish, give him a serpent? And endeavour to deceive him by the likeness of the one to the other, especially some sort of fish, which would poison or sting him, but not refresh and nourish him: such inhuman brutish parents are not surely to be found;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this explained in the notes at Matthew 7:7-11.

Luke 11:12

“A scorpion” See the notes at Luke 10:19. Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p. 379) says: “There is no imaginable likeness between an egg and the ordinary black scorpion of this country, neither in color nor size, nor, when the tail is extended, in shape; but old writers speak of a “white” scorpion, and such a one, with the tail folded up, as in specimens of fossil trilobites, would not look unlike a small egg. Perhaps the contrast, however, refers only to the different properties of the egg and the scorpion, which is sufficiently emphatic.”

Pliny (“N. H.,” xi. 25) says that in Judea the scorpions are about the size of an egg, and not unlike one in shape.