Luke 11:11

New Life Version

"Would any of you fathers give your son a stone if he asked for bread? Or would you give a snake if he asked for a fish?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What father among you, if his son

King James Version (1611)
If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will hee giue him a stone? Or if he aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

King James Version
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

English Standard Version
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

New American Standard Bible
"Now which one of you fathers will his son ask for a fish, and instead of a fish, he will give him a snake?

New Century Version
If your children ask for a fish, which of you would give them a snake instead?

Amplified Bible
"What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Legacy Standard Bible
But what father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Berean Standard Bible
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

Contemporary English Version
Which one of you fathers would give your hungry child a snake if the child asked for a fish?

Complete Jewish Bible
"Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?

Darby Translation
But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

Easy-to-Read Version
Do any of you have a son? What would you do if your son asked you for a fish? Would any father give him a snake?

Geneva Bible (1587)
If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

George Lamsa Translation
For who is among you, a father, if his son should ask him bread, why, would he hand him a stone? and if he should ask him a fish, why, would he hand him a snake instead of a fish?

Good News Translation
Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?

Lexham English Bible
But what father from among you, if his son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake?

Literal Translation
And what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? And if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish?

American Standard Version
And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

Bible in Basic English
And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

Hebrew Names Version
"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

International Standard Version
"What father among you, if his son asks for bread, would give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish,What father among you, if his son asks for a fish">[fn] would give him a snake instead of the fish?Matthew 7:9;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For what father (is there) among you who, if his son shall ask bread, will reach to him a stone? or should he ask a fish, how instead of a fish will he reach to him a serpent ?

Murdock Translation
For which of you being a father, if his son shall ask him for bread, will he reach to him a stone? Or, if he ask of him a fish, will he, instead of a fish, reach to him a serpent?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the sonne shall aske breade, of any of you that is a father, wyll he geue him a stone? Or yf he aske fisshe, wyll he for fisshe geue hym a serpent?

English Revised Version
And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

World English Bible
Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?

Weymouth's New Testament
And what father is there among you, who, if his son asks for a slice of bread, will offer him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish offer him a snake?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor who of you axith his fadir breed, whether he schal yyue hym a stoon? or if he axith fisch, whether he schal yyue hym a serpent for the fisch?

Update Bible Version
And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask for a fish, and he for a fish gives him a serpent?

Webster's Bible Translation
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he shall ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

New English Translation
What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

New King James Version
If a son asks for bread [fn] from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

New Living Translation
"You fathers—if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead?

New Revised Standard
Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But which is the father, from among yourselves, whom the son will ask for, a fish, who, instead of a fish, will give him, a serpent?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Revised Standard Version
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent?

Young's Literal Translation
`And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf the sonne axe bred of eny of you that is a father, wyl he geue him a stone therfore? Or yf he axe a fysshe, wyl he for the fish offre him a serpent?

Mace New Testament (1729)
what father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? or if for a fish, instead of a fish would he give him a serpent?

Simplified Cowboy Version
"If you're a dad and your son asks for some jerky, are you going to hand him a live rattlesnake?

Contextual Overview

¹ Jesus had been praying. One of His followers said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray as John the Baptist taught his followers." ² Jesus said to them, "When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, Your name is holy. May Your holy nation come. *What You want done, may it be done on earth as it is in heaven. ³ Give us the bread we need everyday. ⁴ Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not let us be tempted.'" ⁵ Jesus said to them, "If one of you has a friend and goes to him in the night and says, ‘Friend, give me three loaves of bread, ⁶ for a friend of mine is on a trip and has stopped at my house. I have no food to give him.' ⁷ The man inside the house will say, ‘Do not trouble me. The door is shut. My children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you bread.' ⁸ I say to you, he may not get up and give him bread because he is a friend. Yet, if he keeps on asking, he will get up and give him as much as he needs. ⁹ I say to you, ask, and what you ask for will be given to you. Look, and what you are looking for you will find. Knock, and the door you are knocking on will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who asks, will receive what he asks for. Everyone who looks, will find what he is looking for. Everyone who knocks, will have the door opened to him.

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
And God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 9:7
As for you, have many children. Cover the earth with many people."

Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, "Come, let us make blocks and burn them until they are hard." They used blocks for stone, and tar to hold them together.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let us build a city for ourselves, with a tower that touches the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves, or else we may be sent everywhere over the whole earth."

Genesis 11:32
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
May our young sons be like plants that are full-grown. And may our daughters be like the corner pieces of a great house.

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.