The focus on how one relates to God continues, with the emphasis now falling on the challenge to relate confidently to his parental generosity. The material here is found in a very similar form in Lk. 11:9–13, where it is included with the Lord’s Prayer in a section on prayer. Luke has smoothed the syntax at several points. The significant differences are: Matthew has ‘bread’ and ‘stone’ in 7:9 for Luke’s ‘egg’ and ‘scorpion’, and the order of the images is inverted (perhaps Luke is more original);