6. A friend of mine who is on a journey has just come to my house, and I haven't got any food for him!’
7. And suppose your friend should answer from inside, ‘Don't bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.’
8. Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.
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.”