Matthew 7:7-8

Ask, Seek, Knock

7:7 “Ask ¹  and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door ²  will be opened for you. 7:8 For everyone who asks ³  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 9:30

9:30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about this.”

Matthew 13:16

13:16 “But your eyes are blessed ⁴  because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Matthew 26:3

26:3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Matthew 27:27

27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence ⁵  and gathered the whole cohort ⁶  around him.

[7:7]  ¹ sn The three present imperatives in this verse (Ask…seek…knock) are probably intended to call for a repeated or continual approach before God.

[7:7]  ² tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation here and in v. 8 for clarity.

[7:8]  ³ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the encouragement that God does respond.

[13:16]  ⁵ sn This beatitude highlights the great honor bestowed on the disciples to share in this salvation.

[27:27]  ⁷ tn Or “into their headquarters”; Grk “into the praetorium.”

[27:27]  ⁸ sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.