John 16:24
`Til now ye axiden no thing in my name; `axe ye, `and ye schulen take, that youre ioie be ful.
Wycliffe (portions)
In The King James Version
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 6:9And thus ye schulen preye, Oure fadir that art in heuenes, halewid be thi name;
John 3:29He that hath a wijf, is the hosebonde; but the freend of the spouse that stondith, and herith hym, ioieth with ioye, for the vois of the spouse. Therfor in this thing my ioye is fulfillid.
John 16:23And in that day ye schulen not axe me ony thing; treuli, treuli, `Y seie to you, if ye axen the fadir ony thing in my name, he schal yyue to you.
Matthew Henry on John 16:24-28
Encouragement to Prayer. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the… Read the whole commentary →