John 16:23
And in that day you will ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I tell you, That whatsoever you shall ask my Father in my name, he will give you.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
24Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: ask, and receive, that your joy may be full.
Cross References
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
John 13:36Shemun Kipha said to him, Our Lord, whither goest thou? Jeshu said to him, Whither I go, thou canst not now come after me; but at the last thou shalt come.
John 14:13And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, I will do for you, that the Father may be glorified in his Son.
John 14:22Jihuda saith to him, (it was not Scarjuta,) My Lord, how to us wilt thou manifest thyself, and not to the world?
John 15:15No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.
John 16:26In that day you shall ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will ask of the Father for you;
Matthew Henry on John 16:17-23
Christ's Departure and Return; Sorrow and Joy Foretold. 16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were… Read the whole commentary →