Add parallel Print Page Options

because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.” Then he will answer from inside and say, “Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.” I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness,[a] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 11:8 Or persistence