11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
11 "Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see - these works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
11 Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
24 Ask in my name, according to my will, and he'll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!
24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
24 You haven't done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
(Read John 16:23-27)
Asking of the Father shows a sense of spiritual wants, and a desire of spiritual blessings, with conviction that they are to be had from God only. Asking in Christ's name, is acknowledging our unworthiness to receive any favours from God, and shows full dependence upon Christ as the Lord our Righteousness. Our Lord had hitherto spoken in short and weighty sentences, or in parables, the import of which the disciples did not fully understand, but after his resurrection he intended plainly to teach them such things as related to the Father and the way to him, through his intercession. And the frequency with which our Lord enforces offering up petitions in his name, shows that the great end of the mediation of Christ is to impress us with a deep sense of our sinfulness, and of the merit and power of his death, whereby we have access to God. And let us ever remember, that to address the Father in the name of Christ, or to address the Son as God dwelling in human nature, and reconciling the world to himself, are the same, as the Father and Son are one.
13 "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
13 Now I'm returning to you. I'm saying these things in the world's hearing So my people can experience My joy completed in them.
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
13 "Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy.
(Read John 17:11-16)
Christ does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, but that they might be kept from sin, strengthened for their duty, and brought safe to heaven. The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity. He pleaded with his holy Father, that he would keep them by his power and for his glory, that they might be united in affection and labours, even according to the union of the Father and the Son. He did not pray that his disciples should be removed out of the world, that they might escape the rage of men, for they had a great work to do for the glory of God, and the benefit of mankind. But he prayed that the Father would keep them from the evil, from being corrupted by the world, the remains of sin in their hearts, and from the power and craft of Satan. So that they might pass through the world as through an enemy's country, as he had done. They are not left here to pursue the same objects as the men around them, but to glorify God, and to serve their generation. The Spirit of God in true Christians is opposed to the spirit of the world.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 14:11
Commentary on John 14:1-11
(Read John 14:1-11)
Here are three words, upon any of which stress may be laid. Upon the word troubled. Be not cast down and disquieted. The word heart. Let your heart be kept with full trust in God. The word your. However others are overwhelmed with the sorrows of this present time, be not you so. Christ's disciples, more than others, should keep their minds quiet, when everything else is unquiet. Here is the remedy against this trouble of mind, "Believe." By believing in Christ as the Mediator between God and man, we gain comfort. The happiness of heaven is spoken of as in a father's house. There are many mansions, for there are many sons to be brought to glory. Mansions are lasting dwellings. Christ will be the Finisher of that of which he is the Author or Beginner; if he have prepared the place for us, he will prepare us for it. Christ is the sinner's Way to the Father and to heaven, in his person as God manifest in the flesh, in his atoning sacrifice, and as our Advocate. He is the Truth, as fulfilling all the prophecies of a Saviour; believing which, sinners come by him the Way. He is the Life, by whose life-giving Spirit the dead in sin are quickened. Nor can any man draw nigh God as a Father, who is not quickened by Him as the Life, and taught by Him as the Truth, to come by Him as the Way. By Christ, as the Way, our prayers go to God, and his blessings come to us; this is the Way that leads to rest, the good old Way. He is the Resurrection and the Life. All that saw Christ by faith, saw the Father in Him. In the light of Christ's doctrine, they saw God as the Father of lights; and in Christ's miracles, they saw God as the God of power. The holiness of God shone in the spotless purity of Christ's life. We are to believe the revelation of God to man in Christ; for the works of the Redeemer show forth his own glory, and God in him.