But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”
And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—
Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”
I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
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