friend visiting him from a journey, and he said, “Loan me three loaves of bread.” “No,” he said. “Don’t bother me, I’m in bed, I’m asleep, my children are asleep. Don’t wake me.” Yet because of his persistence, he rises and gives to him. And He says, “That persistence is the thing that counts.” (That’s why He gives this word in the Greek tense which means to keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking.) He wouldn’t do it because he was his friend, but he would do it because of his persistence. There