John 16:26

'In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:

In Context

25'These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

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Cross References

John 14:16and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you — to the age;

John 17:9'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

John 17:24'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

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 →

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