26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
26 Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I've revealed to you. I won't continue making requests of the Father on your behalf.
26 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
26 Then you will ask in my name. I'm not saying I will ask the Father on your behalf,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 16:26
Commentary on John 16:23-27
(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.