Verb krouō (to knock) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

7: 7"Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock (krouō), and the door will be opened for you.
7: 8For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks (krouō), the door will be opened.

Luke

11: 9"So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock (krouō), and the door will be opened for you.
11: 10For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks (krouō), the door will be opened.
12: 36be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks (krouō).
13: 25When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock (krouō) at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then in reply he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

Acts

12: 13When he knocked (krouō) at the outer gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.
12: 16Meanwhile Peter continued knocking (krouō); and when they opened the gate, they saw him and were amazed.