At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
At that day ye shall ask in my name. He had before bidden them do so: here He intimates that this is to be the appropriate, characteristic exercise of the believing Church, in its conversation with the Father.
And I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you - that is, as if the Father were of Himself indisposed to hear them, or as if His own solicitations were needed to incline an unwilling Ear. Christ does pray the Father for them, but certainly not for this reason.