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.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

“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.