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since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him;
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and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give [it] thee?
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-- I say to you, Although he will not get up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.
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And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.
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But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?
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or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?
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If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb [man] spoke. And the crowds wondered.
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But some from among them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.
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And others tempting [him] sought from him a sign out of heaven.