24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. …
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-27)An answer to their askings is here promised, for their further comfort. Now there are two ways of asking: asking by way of enquiry, which is the asking of the ignorant; and asking by way of request, which is the asking of the indigent. Christ here speaks of both. I. By way of enquiry, they should not need to ask (John 16:23): “ In that day you shall ask me nothing ;” ouk erotesete ouden — you shal…
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