Matthew 7:7-8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7

A Ask, and it will be given to you, B Seek, and you will find, C Knock, and it will be opened to you. As we have seen these words connect back to their dealings with ‘what is holy’ (Matthew 7:6). While His disciples are not to degrade what is holy by offering it to those not ready to receive it, they are to make the greatest of efforts to obtain it for themselves. The tense of the verbs indicates persistence. They are to ‘Ask and go on asking, seek and go on seeking, knock and go on knocking.’... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7-12

The Means By Which the Law and the Prophets Will Be Fulfilled In The Coming Of The Messianic Age Through The Prayers Of His People (7:7-12). Having outlined in some depths the Messianic interpretation of the Law and some of the ‘holy teachings’ connected with it, Jesus now explains to His disciples how they can obtain the means by which to fulfil it. He had made clear that their righteousness had to exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20). To some extent how they can exceed the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:8

A For every one who asks receives, B And he who seeks finds, C And to him who knocks it will be opened. And as they persevere in prayer for the coming of His Kingly Rule and the power of His Holy Spirit, along with all His other precious gifts, they will ask and will receive, they will seek and find His presence and all that He has promised them, they will knock and His door will be opened to welcome them and to give them His provision (compare Hebrews 10:19-23). It should be noted that this is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7-11

Matthew 7:7-1 Kings : . The Value of Prayer.— An interpolation with no relation to the context. It is more suitably placed in Luke 11:9-1 Chronicles :. The emphasis is on asking, seeking, knocking; no conditions or limitations are mentioned, but we must perforce understand “ Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Seek and knock are pictorial illustrations of ask. Fish was, next to bread, the commonest article of diet round the Sea of Galilee; stones on the shore and perhaps water-snakes... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 7:7-8

Here is a precept expressed by three words, ask, seek, knock; and a promise annexed in three distinct terms, it shall be given you, ye shall find, it shall be opened unto you. The thing commanded is prayer; the thing promised is an audience of prayer, or an answer to prayer. The multiplying of the terms in which the precept is expressed is not idle and superfluous, it lets us know our averseness to the duty, and that God in it requireth of us faith, diligence, constancy, and importunity. Christ... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 7:1-12

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 7:3. Mote.—The Greek noun so translated means a stalk, or twig. The illustration seems to have been a familiar one among the Jews, and a proverb all but verbally identical is found as a saying of Rabbi Tarphon (Plumptre). Beam.—A graphic and almost droll representation of a comparatively great fault. The word means a log, joist, or rafter (Morison).Matthew 7:6. Give not, etc.—The connection between this verse and the preceding section is not quite obvious. It seems to be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 7:7

Matthew 7:7 God is not only a great Giver, but He is sometimes a great Hider of His gifts. The subject to which the text applies pre-eminently, as the context shows, is the matter of the soul's welfare, and the things that accompany salvation. The promise is not, "Seek, health and ye shall find it. Seek fame, seek fortune, and ye shall find them;" but the whole discourse bears on the kingdom of heaven and the righteousness thereof, and the promise of the true and faithful witness is tantamount... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 7:7-8

Matthew 7:7-8 I. We have in these words, not a formal definition of prayer, but an incidental definition of prayer, and a most complete definition. We have it in the little word "ask." To pray to God is to ask of God. "Ask," said Christ; and the more simple and childlike the asking the better. II. We have here a recognition of the hindrances which we meet in prayer. The blessings that we want are sometimes visible in God's hands; God seems to be standing before us with the very mercies that we... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 7:7-11

Matthew 7:7-11 I. Our Lord enjoins us here to pray; and He assures us that we shall not pray in vain. It does not indeed follow that God will grant any and every thing we may choose to ask; for there are some things which, without irreverence, we may truly say, it is impossible for Him to bestow. But our Lord's words do involve that prayer is not merely effectual in producing a devout frame of mind, but also in securing, to some extent, the object of our requests. "The effectual fervent prayer... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 7:7-8

DISCOURSE: 1328THE IMPORTANCE AND EFFICACY OF PRAYERMatthew 7:7-8. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.WE need not look for a connexion in every part of our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount; because the account of it which we have in this Gospel is nothing more than an epitome, in which only the principal heads, together with some... read more

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