Luke 11:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

Luke 11:6 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Prayer is one of the great laws of natural religion. That man is a brute, is a monster, that never prays, that never gives glory to his Maker, nor feels his favour, nor owns his dependence upon him. One great design therefore of Christianity is to assist us in prayer, to enforce the duty upon us, to instruct us in it, and encourage us to expect advantage by it. Now here, I. We find Christ himself…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

5-8. at midnight ... for a friend is come--The heat in warm countries makes evening preferable to-day for travelling; but “midnight” is everywhere a most unseasonable hour of call, and for that very reason it is here selected.