²⁰ And she saith, `One small petition I ask of thee, turn not back my face;' and the king saith to her, `Ask, my mother, for I do not turn back thy face.'

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

⁸ for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

⁹ `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?

¹⁰ and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?

¹¹ if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

³⁵ for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

³⁶ and the enemies of a man are those of his household.

²⁴ but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

¹⁹ `Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

²⁰ Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

²¹ and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'

⁹ and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

³ and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;'

⁴ Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'

¹³ and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

¹⁴ if ye ask anything in my name I will do `it'.

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.