¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

²⁵ Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’

“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’^(A)

¹³ Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.^(A)

¹⁶ But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.