“And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;”
The parable of the friend at midnight introduces the persistence theme: a man who arrives at midnight needing three loaves to feed an unexpected guest, knocking on his neighbor's door, is refused initially on grounds of inconvenience — the door is locked, the children are in bed, I cannot get up. The social pressure of the request matters: he will get up because of the neighbor's shameless persistence, not because of friendship.
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