Prayer and persistence
The Friend at Midnight
Also called The Persistent Friend, Three Loaves
A man bangs on his neighbor door at midnight for bread and will not go away.
What it turns on
The neighbor gets up not out of friendship but because the knocking will not stop.
5He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
6for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’
7and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
8I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
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