Luke 11:6-17

⁶because a friend has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

⁷and he will answer from within and say, ‘Don't bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give to you?’

⁸I say to you, even if he will not get up and give 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“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.

¹⁰Because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

¹¹And which father among you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish?

¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

¹³If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

¹⁴Then He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. As a result, when the demon had gone out the mute spoke! And the crowds marveled.

¹⁵But some of them said, “It's by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that he casts out demons.”

¹⁶While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.

¹⁷But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against itself falls.