“I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.”
The Father-son analogy grounds the ask-seek-knock promise in the nature of God: if a human father who is evil will not give his child a snake when he asks for a fish, or a scorpion when he asks for an egg, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. Luke's version replaces Matthew's good things with the Holy Spirit — the gift of the new age given to persistent seekers.
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