Luke 11:11–13

11:11 What father among you, if your31 son asks for32 a fish, will give him a snake33 instead of a fish? 11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?34 11:13 If you then, although you are35 evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit36 to those who ask him!”

31	tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
32	tc Most mss (א A C D L W Θ Ψ f1, 13 33 𝔐 lat syc,p,h bo) have “bread, does not give him a stone instead, or” before “a fish”; the longer reading, however, looks like a harmonization to Matt 7:9. The shorter reading is thus preferred, attested by 𝔓45, 75 B 1241 pc sys sa.
33	sn The snake probably refers to a water snake.
34	sn The two questions of vv. 11–12 expect the answer, “No father would do this!”
35	tn The participle ὑπάρχοντες (huparchontes) has been translated as a concessive participle.
36	sn The provision of the Holy Spirit is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. Some apply it to the general provision of the Spirit, but this would seem to look only at one request in a context that speaks of repeated asking. The teaching as a whole stresses not that God gives everything his children want, but that God gives the good that they need. The parallel account in Matthew (7:11) refers to good things where Luke mentions the Holy Spirit.