Matthew 7:9,10

If his son ask bread, will he give him. stone?

The assurance of an answer to prayer is based on the fact that God is our Father. He treats his children on the same principles that. good and wise earthly parent would employ. No kind parent would mock his child by answering his cry for bread with stones. The Revision correctly renders the Greek "a loaf" instead of bread. The loaf of Palestine was in shape and appearance much like. smooth, flat, round stone. If. son should cry for. loaf and the parent should hand him. cobble stone instead, the act would be worthy of. demon. The two chief articles of the common people around the Sea of Galilee were bread and fish. Hence these two are singled out. It would be still more wicked if the child should ask for. fish to give him. serpent. The serpent is similar in appearance to some kinds of fish, as eel and perch. Such responses to prayer would be both deceptive and injurious.