Jesus called His disciples to be passionate for God. Jesus used continuous verbs for “asking, seeking, and knocking,” in order to challenge His disciples to look up continuously and with perseverance. Seeking is repeated and intense asking, and knocking is repeated and intense seeking. He promised that everyone who asks, seeks, and knocks in this way will be answered. Then Jesus summed up His ethical teaching with the Golden Rule: “Do to others what you would have them do to you.”
