Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed.

Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

But the one who did not know his master’s will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.