Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
KJV
ἢ τίς ἐστιν ἐξ ὑμῶν ἄνθρωπος, ὃν αἰτήσει ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἄρτον, μὴ λίθον ἐπιδώσει αὐτῷ;
Greek NT
Aut quis est ex vobis homo, quem si petierit filius suus panem, numquid lapidem porriget ei ?
Vulgate
Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;
ASV
Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἰτέω
aiteo
verb · 70×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λίθος
lithos
noun · 60×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπιδίδωμι
epididomi
verb · 10×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: ἐστιν | NIV/RP: ἐστιν
- ἐστιν — SBLGNT
- ἐστιν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: αἰτήσει | WH/Treg/NA: αἰτήσει | NIV/RP: ἐὰν αἰτήσῃ
- αἰτήσει — SBLGNT
- αἰτήσει — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
- ἐὰν αἰτήσῃ — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2609Once committed to conversion, the heart learns to pray in faith. Faith is a filial adherence to God beyond what we feel and understand. It is possible because the beloved Son gives us access to the Father. He can ask us to "seek" and to "knock," since he himself is the door and the way.65
2. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery. What mystery? For surely Christ says, Matthew 10:27. ηκούσατε rec. text ἀκούετε What you have heard in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. How then does he call it a mystery? Because that neither angel nor archangel, nor any other…
Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
Q. What do you believe when you say: I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth? A. That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and everything in them, who still upholds and rules them by his eternal counsel and providence, is my God and Father because of Christ his Son. I trust him so much that I do not …
Q. Why did Christ command us to call God our Father? A. At the very beginning of our prayer Christ wants to kindle in us what is basic to our prayer — the childlike awe and trust that God through Christ has become our Father, and that just as our parents do not refuse us the things of this life, even less will God our Father in heaven refuse to give us what we ask in faith.
Cross-references
- Luke 11:11 — If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
- Luke 11:11 — If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
- Matt 6:26 — Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?