John 16:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I need not tell you (to beget in you a confidence that your prayers should be heard) that I will pray to the Father for you; for my Father himself hath such a love for you, that you may from thence alone conclude that he will hear you. And though my Father's love to you be an everlasting love, which hath no cause in the creature; yet as to the manifestations of my Father's love, they are further drawn forth by the love which he seeth you bear to me, and by your receiving me, who am the Messiah, and came forth from God, to perform the work of man's redemption.