8. I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
9. “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
10. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
11. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
12. Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?
13. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
14. He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marvelled.