“For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Matthew 7:8 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Matthew 7:8
Having before forbidden us to pray for things of the flesh, He now shews what we ought to ask, saying, 'Ask, and it shall be given you.'
Otherwise; when He commanded not to give the holy thing to dogs, and not to cast pearls before swine, the hearer conscious of his own ignorance might say, Why do you thus bid me not give the holy thing to dogs, when as yet I see not that I have any holy thing
Otherwise; Having given them some commands for the sanctification of prayer, saying, 'Judge not,' He adds accordingly, 'Ask, and it shall be given unto you,' as though He were to say, If ye observe this mercy towards your enemies, whatever seems to your shut, 'knock, and it shall be opened to you.'