The Parable of the Friend at Night (or of the Importunate Neighbour), is a parable of Jesus, which appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to the Luke 11:5-8, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands.
This parable demonstrates the need to pray and never give up. It is similar to the Parable of the Unjust Judge and is depicted by several artists, including William Holman Hunt.
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“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 25:21.
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“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 22:14.
In the parable of the marriage of the king’s son.
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On my black coffin let there be strewn.
Not a friend, not a friend greet
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A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
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What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass
That sat so still and played at the chess?
What but heroic wantonness?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)