6. A friend of mine who is on a journey has just come to my house, and I haven't got any food for him!’
7. And suppose your friend should answer from inside, ‘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.’
8. Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.
9. “And so I say to you: ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.