King James Version, Updated™

(1) It came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples."

(2) And he said to them, "When YOU pray, say, 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.

(3) Give us day by day our daily bread.

(4) And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.' "

(5) And he said to them, "Which of YOU shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

(6) For a friend of mine on his journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him';

(7) And he from within shall answer and say, 'Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you bread.'

(8) I say to YOU, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

(9) And I say to YOU, Ask, and it shall be given YOU; seek, and YOU shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to YOU.

(10) For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

(11) If a son shall ask for bread from any of YOU who is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he instead of a fish give him a serpent?

(12) Or if he shall ask for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

(13) If YOU then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more shall YOUR heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

(14) And he was casting out a devil, and it was speechless. And it came to pass, when the devil had gone out, the speechless spoke; and the people were amazed.

(15) But some of them said, "He casts out devils through Beelzebub the ruler of the devils."

(16) Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

(17) But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls.

(18) If Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because YOU say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

(19) And if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do YOUR sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be YOUR judges.

(20) But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God has come upon YOU.

(21) When a strong man is fully armed he keeps his palace, and his goods are secure.

(22) But when someone stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

(23) He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

(24) When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, 'I will return to my house from where I came out.'

(25) And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in proper order.

(26) Then he goes, and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

(27) And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you."

(28) But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

(29) And when the people were gathered together, he began to say, "This is an evil generation; they seek a sign; and no sign be shall given it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

(30) For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of man be to this generation.

(31) The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

(32) The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

(33) No man, when he has lit a candle, puts it in a secret place, or under a bushel, but on a candlestick, so that those who come in may see the light.

(34) The light of the body is the eye, therefore when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

(35) Take heed therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness.

(36) If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle gives you light."

(37) And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him; and he went in, and sat down to eat.

(38) When the Pharisee saw it, he was amazed that he had not first washed before dinner.

(39) And the Lord said to him, "Now YOU Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but YOUR inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

(40) YOU fools, did not he who made that which is outside make that which is within also?

(41) But rather give alms of such things as YOU have; and, behold, all things are clean to YOU.

(42) But woe to YOU, Pharisees! for YOU tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God; these YOU ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

(43) Woe to YOU, Pharisees! For YOU love the best seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces.

(44) Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For YOU are as graves which do not appear, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them."

(45) Then one of the lawyers answered, and said to him, "Master, by saying this you reproach us also."

(46) And he said, "Woe to YOU also, YOU lawyers! for YOU load men with burdens heavy to bear, and YOU yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of YOUR fingers.

(47) Woe to YOU! For YOU build the tombs of the prophets, and YOUR fathers killed them.

(48) Truly YOU bear witness that YOU approve the deeds of YOUR fathers; for they indeed killed them, and YOU build their tombs.

(49) Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,'

(50) that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

(51) From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple; truly I say to YOU, It shall be required of this generation.

(52) Woe to YOU, lawyers! For YOU have taken away the key of knowledge; YOU did not enter in yourselves, and YOU hindered those who were entering in."

(53) And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things,

(54) lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something spoken out of his mouth, so that they might accuse him.