John Chapter 16 verse 24 Holy Bible
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
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Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
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Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
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till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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John 16 : 24 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Hitherto - up to the present period - ye asked (ἠτήσατε, the common word for petition and request made by the inferior to the superior, the man to his Maker) nothing in my Name. The disciples had not comprehended the fullness of that Name of the well-beloved Son, filling their minds with the revelation of God made in it, and feeling it to be the great inducement and guarantee of acceptable prayer. Ask (continuously, habitually, for this is no longer in aorist, but in the present tense), and ye shall receive (ἵνα here not relic, but indicates "contemplated result"), that your joy may be fulfilled [rendered complete and full] (comp. John 15:11; Ver. 22); the joy of your love to one another and to me may reach its highest expression. There may be reference to their unanimity in the Holy Spirit, the Pentecostal outburst of perfect love which casts out fear.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name.--Comp. Note on John 14:13. They had not up to this time received the Holy Spirit. When He came, He was as the presence of Christ dwelling in them. Under His influence their will became the will of Christ, and their thoughts the thoughts of Christ, and their prayers the prayers of Christ. They had not yet so learnt Him .as to pray in His name. It would be otherwise in that day.Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.--The future is thought of as already present, and they are directed to ask, as though they had already entered into the new region of spiritual life. The pangs of the present travailing are passing away (John 16:22). The fulness of joy is already at hand. (Comp. Note on John 15:11.)