"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

But whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

son of Mattathias, son of Amos, son of Nahum, son of Esli, son of Naggai,

"So I say to you, 'Ask, and what you ask for shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.'

As soon as the Master of the house shall have risen and shut the door, and you have begun to stand outside and knock at the door and say, "'Sir, open the door for us' --"'I do not know you,' He answers; 'you are no friends of mine.'

"So he rose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him tenderly.

It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.

When he knocked at the wicket in the door, a maidservant named Rhoda came to answer the knock;

and with loud lamentation they all threw their arms round his neck, and kissed him lovingly,

For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.