6. because a friend of mine has come to me on his journey and I have nothing to set before him.’
7. Then from within he may answer, saying, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’
8. I tell you, even if the friend will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9. “So 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 will be opened.’
11. What father, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
12. And if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Ruach ha-Kodesh to those who ask Him!”
14. Now Yeshua was driving out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute one spoke and the crowds were amazed.