10. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
11. “You fathers—if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead?
12. Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion? Of course not!
13. So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”
14. One day Jesus cast out a demon from a man who couldn’t speak, and when the demon was gone, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed,