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Moreover He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves.

‘For a friend of mine has come out of the way to me, and I have nothing to set before him.’

“And the one inside answers, and says, ‘Do not trouble me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give them to you!’

“I say to you that though he would not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet he would undoubtedly rise and give him as many as he needed because of his persistence.

“And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

10 “For everyone who asks, receives. And the one who seeks, finds. And to the one who knocks, it shall be opened.

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