For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
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Gill's Exposition
And he from within shall answer and say,.... The friend within doors, shall reply to him that is without at his door, in the street:
trouble me not; by knocking at the door, and importuning to rise…
And he said unto them ... - Jesus proceeds to show that, in order to obtain the blessing, it was necessary to “persevere” in asking for it. For this purpose he introduces the case of a friend’s asking…
Adam Clarke
In his journey is come - Or, perhaps more literally, A friend of mine is come to me out of his way, εξ ὁδου, which renders the case more urgent - a friend of mine, benighted, belated, and who has…
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.…
Cambridge Bible
I have nothing to set before him Even the deepest poverty was not held to excuse any lack of the primary Eastern virtue of hospitality. Allegorically we may see here the unsatisfied hunger of the…