7. and from inside he answers and says, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.'
8. I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9. "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
11. Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?