Matthew 7:8
7:8 For everyone who asks 1 receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 12:39
12:39 But he answered them, 2 “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
1 sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the encouragement that God does respond.
2 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.