r: Martha, Martha, thou art
anxious and troubled about many things. (42)But one thing is needful;
and Mary chose the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

XI.

AND it came to pass that, as he was in a certain place praying, when
he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray,
as also John taught his disciples. (2)And he said to them: When ye
pray, say; Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. (3)Give us
day by day our daily bread[11:3]. (4)And forgive us our sins; for we
ourselves forgive every one indebted to us. And bring us not into
temptation.

(5)And he said to them: Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go
to him at midnight, and say to him: (6)Friend, lend me three loaves;
for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing
to set before him; (7)and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble
me not; the door is already shut, and my children with me are in bed;
I can not rise and give thee? (8)I say to you, though he will not rise
and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity
he will rise and give him as many as he needs. (9)I also say to you:
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened to you. (10)For every one that asks receives; and he
that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

(11)And what father is there among you, of whom if his son ask bread,
he will give him a stone; or a fish, will instead of a fish give him a
serpent? (12)Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
(13)If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him?

(14)And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to
pass, when the demon was gone out, that the dumb man spoke; and the
multitudes wondered. (15)But some of them said: He casts out the
demons through Beelzebul, the prince of the demons. (16)And others,
tempting, sought of him a sign from heaven. (17)But he, knowing their
thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself is
brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house
falls[11:17]. (18)And if Satan also is divided against himself, how
shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out the demons
through Beelzebul. (19)And if I through Beelzebul cast out the demons,
through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they sha