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NASB | Luke 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:13 "If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!" |
Bible Question:
Why in this scripture does the son ask for the Holy Spirit and why does the Father give it to him, what purpose does The Holy Spirit serve, if he has already been baptized into the Spirit to obtain his relationship as a son? Curious, Tim Hines |
Bible Answer: Tim, As best I can answer you is this: the context of Luke 11 is dealing with prayer. As JFB notes: "In the corresponding passage in Luke (see on Lu 11:13), instead of “good things,” our Lord asks whether He will not much more give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him. At this early stage of His ministry, and before such an audience, He seems to avoid such sharp doctrinal teaching as was more accordant with His plan at the riper stage indicated in Luke, and in addressing His own disciples exclusively." [Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, A.R.; and Brown, David, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] The role of the Holy Spirit is noted in John 14:16-17: "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you." The promise of the Spirit follows in John 14:26: "“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you." We see that advent of the Holy Spirit at Pentacost in Acts 2. I would submit that the role of the Holy Spirit in Acts has since changed, and is not the same as Paul refers to in his epistles, specifically 1 Cor.12:13. I believe a study of the contrasts between Acts and the Pauline Epistles bear this out. Speaking The Truth In Love, BradK |