once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers,