and if a fish he may ask — a serpent will he present to him?
if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
‘Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf — a stone will he present to him?
‘And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;