John Gill Commentary Luke 11:13

John Gill Commentary

Luke 11:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Luke 11:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"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?" — Luke 11:13 (ASV)

If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to
your children (See Gill on Matthew 7:11).

How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask him ?
instead of the Holy Spirit here, the Vulgate Latin version reads, "good Spirit", and so two copies of Beza's; and the Ethiopic version, "the good gift of the Holy Spirit"; and doubtless intends the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, in distinction from, and as preferable to the good things given by earthly parents, to their children.