5  And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves, 6  since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him; 7  and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give it thee? 8  —I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants. 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 that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened. 11  But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent? 12  or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?