Y el que está adentro le contesta: “No me molestes. Ya está cerrada la puerta y mis hijos y yo estamos acostados. No puedo levantarme a darte nada”. Les digo que, aunque no se levante a darle pan por ser amigo suyo, sí se levantará por su impertinencia y le dará cuanto necesite.

»Así que yo digo: Pidan y se les dará; busquen y encontrarán; llamen y se les abrirá.

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And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[a] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.(A)

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you;(B) seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:8 Or yet to preserve his good name