John 16:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ”

• John 16:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hitherto - During his ministry, and while he was with them. Have ye asked ... - From the evangelists, as well as from this declaration, it seems that they had presented their requests for ins...

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• John 16:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 16. There is no break between chs. 15 and 16. Jesus has told them beforehand, so that His death and their suffering may not daunt their faith, as the Baptist was offended by the course of the...

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• John 16:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Hitherto . Until now. have ye asked . asked ye. full . fulfilled: i.e. filled full.

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• John 16:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  24. Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. It is probable that the apostles kept the rule of prayer which had been laid down in the Law. Now we know that the fathers were not accustomed...

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• John 16:24 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1704 THE BENEFIT OF PRAYER John 16:24 . Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full . THIS world is justly characterized as a vale of tears. Even they who experience the mos...

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• John 16:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name - Ye have not as yet considered me the great Mediator betwee...

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• John 16:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ordinary readers are apt to lay the emphasis of thi...

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• John 16:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Will Prove the Disciples' Comfort in Time of Persecution 1-6. The Persecution of the Apostles predicted. This section repeats many of the ideas of the prev...

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• John 16:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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. Unde...

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• John 16:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XV. LAST WORDS. "A little while, and ye behold Me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me. Some of His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that He saith unto us...

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• John 16:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Looking beyond Present Sorrow John 16:12-24 The disciples were terribly overwrought by the events of the last few days, the reversal of their cherished hopes, and the growing darkness and sorro...

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• John 16:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Throughout these discourses our Lord was preparing His disciples for all that He saw coming to them. He told them that they would have sorrow resulting from their suffering. Because of this, it was n...

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• John 16:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shew it unto you. (16) A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see...

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• John 16:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ,.... Not that they had never prayed as yet; for they had desired him to teach them to pray, which he did: they had prayed to him particularly for an increa...

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• John 16:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. Ver. 24. Hitherto ye have asked nothing ] To what ye should have asked, and might have obtained. P...

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• John 16:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In that day ye shall ask me nothing Εμε ουκ ερωτησετε ουδεν, you shall not inquire any thing of me , or, as Dr. Campbell renders it, you will put no questions to me. That is, when I have sent th...

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• John 16:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  All that the Lord spoke on that memorable night was intended for the preparation of His disciples for what would face them in view of His death, resurrection and return to the glory. There would be s...

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• John 16:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Encouragement to Prayer.       23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Fa...

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• John 16:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All the prayers of believers under the Old Testament were accepted upon the account of the Mediator, who was typified by the temple, and the ark, where their solemn worship was performed by Divine ap...

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• John 16:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Warning and Assurance for the Future ( John 16:16-33 ). As the time for them to go to Gethsemane approaches Jesus now begins to prepare them for what is to happen there. They are to recognise that...

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• John 16:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 16:25 . Proverbs, or parables.—Such as the vine, the woman in travail, etc. The time cometh, etc .—The Spirit after Pentecost would guide them clearly into...

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• John 16:24 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 16:1 . These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. That you should not be scandalized when you are put to suffering on any account that you should not dread the offe...

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• John 16:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 16:1 . These things have I spoken, that ye should not be offended, so as to stumble and shrink back from the cause in which you are engaged. Expulsion from the synagogue was to a jew next to...

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• John 16:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing The characteristics of the Christian age I. COMPLETE REVELATION 1. The subject: the Father; His nature: God; His character: love; His purpose: salvati...

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• John 16:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 16:1-43 (c) The bitter issues of the hostility of the world . John 16:1 These things . What things? Primarily the explanation he had given of the opposition and hat...

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• John 16:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The prayer that never fails:

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• John 16:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 3:12-18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:2 ; Acts 2:33-36 ; John 16:12 ; John 16:16 ; John 16:17 ; John 16:28 ; John 16:29 ; Mark 4:13 ; Matthew 13:10 ; Matthew 13:11 ; Matthew 13:34 ; Ma...

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• John 16:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name — For they had asked him directly for all they wanted.

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