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

^{8 Ref} 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 Ref} `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 Ref} 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?