8. “I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.
9. “And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
10. “For everyone asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
11. “And what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish,
12. or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion?
13. “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!”
14. And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to be, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb spoke. And the crowds marvelled.
15. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be‛elzebul, the ruler of the demons,”
16. and others, trying Him, were seeking from Him a sign from heaven.
17. And He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every reign divided against itself is laid waste, and a house divided against a house falls.
18. “So if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his reign stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Be‛elzebul.
19. “Now if I cast out demons by Be‛elzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges.
20. “But if I cast out demons by the finger of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you.
21. “When a strong man, having been well armed, watches over his own court, his possessions are in peace.