4. Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
5. He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
6. for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’
7. and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
8. I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
9. “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
10. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
11. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
12. Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?
13. If you then, being evil, 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. He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
15. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
16. Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
17. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
18. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
19. But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.