Luke 11:9

“And I say unto you, ask, and it shall be given you, etc.] This is said by Christ, to encourage to prayer, and importunity in it; that if any one asks of God, in the name of Christ, and in faith, whether it be bread for the body, or food for the soul; or any blessing whatever, whether temporal or spiritual, it shall be given; not according to their deserts, but according to the riches of the grace of God; who is rich unto all that call upon him, in sincerity and truth: seek, and ye shall find: whether it be Christ, the pearl of great price, or God in Christ; or particularly, pardoning grace and mercy through Christ, or the knowledge of divine things; and both grace here, and glory hereafter,…”

“(See on Mat 7:7-11.)”

“See this explained in the notes at Matthew 7:7-11. Luke 11:12 “A scorpion” See the notes at Luke 10:19. Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p. 379) says: “There is no imaginable likeness between an egg and the ordinary black scorpion of this country, neither in color nor size, nor, when the tail is extended, in shape; but old writers speak of a “white” scorpion, and such a one, with the tail folded up, as in specimens of fossil trilobites, would not look unlike a small egg. Perhaps the contrast, however, refers only to the different properties of the egg and the scorpion, which is sufficiently emphatic.” Pliny (“N. H.,” xi. 25) says that in Judea the scorpions are about the size of…”

“Mat 7:7. Luke 11:13”

“I say: Luk 13:24; Mat 6:29, Mat 21:31; Mar 13:37; Rev 2:24 Ask: Psa 50:15, Psa 118:5; Jer 33:3; Mat 7:7, Mat 7:8, Mat 21:22; Mar 11:24; Joh 4:10, Joh 14:13; Joh 15:7, Joh 15:16, Joh 16:23, Joh 16:24; Co2 12:8, Co2 12:9; Heb 4:16; Jam 1:5, Jam 5:15; Jo1 3:22; Jo1 5:14, Jo1 5:15 seek: Luk 13:24; Psa 27:4, Psa 27:8, Psa 34:4, Psa 34:10, Psa 105:3, Psa 105:4; Sol 3:1-4, Sol 5:6; Isa 45:19, Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7; Jer 29:12; Dan 9:3; Amo 5:4-6; Joh 1:45-49; Act 10:4-6; Rom 2:7; Heb 11:6 knock: Luk 13:25; Co2 6:2 Luke 11:10”