9 “And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
10 “For everyone asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
11 “And what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish,
12 or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion?
13 “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!”
14 And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to be, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb spoke. And the crowds marvelled.
15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be‛elzebul, the ruler of the demons,”