“ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ”
John 14:1-4 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Him...
14. If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. This is not a useless repetition. All see and feel that they are unworthy to approach God; and yet the greater part of men burst forw...
DISCOURSE: 1686 CHRIST ENGAGES TO ANSWER PRAYER John 14:13-14 . Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my n...
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it .
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Observe here, that while they are supposed to ask what they want, not of Him, but of th...
The Comforter 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heaven...
If ye shall ask any thing in my name. — This is an emphatic repetition of the width of the promise and of its condition. In the second clause of the verse the pronoun “I” bears the stress. “I (on M...
VIII. JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE. "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and strai...
the Spirit of Truth John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word Paraclete. It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He t...
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me, hath s...
If ye shall ask anything ,.... These words are much, the same with the former, and have been thought, by some, to have crept into the text from the margin; though they seem rather to be repeated by...
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it . Ver. 14. If ye shall ask anything, &c. ] This is not a vain repetition. Nunquam satis dicitur, quod nunquam satis discitur. (Seneca.) W...
Verily, he that believeth on me , &c. Having mentioned his miracles, Jesus proceeds to promise, that he would endow his apostles with a power of performing even greater wonders than any they had...
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let n...
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; a...
The words are doubled for the further confirmation of them, that we might not doubt when we put up our petitions to God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the will of God.
“Emphatically I tell you, he of you who goes on believing on me, the works that I do he will do as well, and he will do greater things than these because I go to the Father. And whatever you ask in m...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 14:8-21 . The request of Philip and the response of Jesus. —Philip, catching at the word ἑωράκατε (seen), misapprehended its meaning, and thought of some theo...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not addres...
John 14:1 . Let not your heart be troubled. Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; so...
He that believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also. The activity of the glorified Christ I. ITS REALITY AND CERTAINTY. Verses 13, 14 show that Christ regarded Himself as the worker an...
EXPOSITION John 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ. It is enough that the awful war...
The promise of greater works:
John 14:14
The Comfort Chapter John 14:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward...