9. “And so I say to you: ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
10. For all those who ask will receive, and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks.
11. Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?
12. Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
13. Bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
14. Jesus was driving out a demon that could not talk; and when the demon went out, the man began to talk. The crowds were amazed,
15. but some of the people said, “It is Beelzebul, the chief of the demons, who gives him the power to drive them out.”
16. Others wanted to trap Jesus, so they asked him to perform a miracle to show that God approved of him.
17. But Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said to them, “Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long; a family divided against itself falls apart.