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"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.
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For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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"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?
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Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Ruach HaKodesh to those who ask him?"
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He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
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But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul, the prince of the demons."
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Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
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But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
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If Hasatan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say that I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul.
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But if I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.