Luke 11:11

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?

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?

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 Life Bible
"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?

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 And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples? ² And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come. ³ Give us every day bread for our needs. ⁴ May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test. ⁵ And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread; ⁶ Because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to put before him; ⁷ And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you? ⁸ I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of. ⁹ And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you. ¹⁰ For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

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 gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

Genesis 9:7
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

Genesis 11:32
And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's 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.