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And he said to them, If any of you had a friend, and went to him at midnight and said to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine has come from a journey to me and I have nothing to set before him, and the man inside were to answer and say, Don’t trouble me; the door is now shut, and my servants are with me in the chamber; I cannot rise and give them to you – I say to you, though he would not arise and give him a loaf because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he would rise and give him as many as he needed. And so I say to you: ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

10 For everyone that asks, receives, and he that seeks, finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

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