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He also said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend; and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, `Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
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because a friend of mine who has been travelling has just arrived at my house, and I have nothing for him to eat.'
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Now the one inside may answer, `Don't bother me! The door is already shut, my children are with me in bed -- I can't get up to give you anything!'
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But I tell you, even if he won't get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man's hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
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"Moreover, I myself say to you: keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
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For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened.
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"Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?
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Or if he asked for an egg would give him a scorpion?
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So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will the Father keep giving the Ruach HaKodesh from heaven to those who keep asking him!"
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He was expelling a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute spoke; and the people were astounded.
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But some of them said, "It is by Ba`al-Zibbul" -- the ruler of the demons -- "that he expels the de mons."