{"id":870,"date":"2010-05-19T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=870"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:20:44","slug":"john-1623-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"John 16:23-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

25 “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

The first part of verse 23 belongs at the end of verse 22. I will see you again (His second coming) and you will ask (question) Me nothing. They will know as they are known. There will be no more questions.<\/h3>\n

The second part of verse 23 goes with verse 24, beginning with “Most assuredly.” When the Spirit comes, they were to ask in Christ’s name (pray \u2014 a different word for “ask” than the earlier use in verse 23).<\/h3>\n

in that day (v. 23) \u2014 Christ’s resurrection and following<\/h3>\n

ask (v. 23, first usage) = familiar entreaty, as a loved one<\/h3>\n

ask (v. 23, second usage) = petition, as a supplicant<\/h3>\n

whatever (v. 23) \u2014 in accordance with God’s will, for the Son’s glory and in our own best interest.<\/h3>\n

Verse 24 marks the end of the period when prayer should be said in the style of the Lord’s prayer.<\/h3>\n

figurative language (v. 25) \u2014 proverbs. He knew they couldn’t understand it all. When the Spirit came, He<\/em> showed the Father plainly and they understood \u2014 especially about the Fatherhood of God and the sonship of the believer (Galatians 4:6<\/span><\/a>; Romans 8:15-16<\/span><\/a>).<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.\u00a0 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-gospel-of-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}