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14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.  

Jesus Promises Another Helper

15 a“If you love Me,1 keep My commandments.  
16 And I will pray the Father, and aHe will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—  
17 athe Spirit of truth, bwhom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you cand will be in you.  
18 aI will not leave you orphans; bI will come to you.  

Indwelling of the Father and the Son

19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but ayou will see Me. bBecause I live, you will live also.  
20 At that day you will know that aI am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.  
21 aHe who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and1 manifest Myself to him.”  
22 aJudas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”  
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, aand We will come to him and make Our home with him.  
24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and athe word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.  

The Gift of His Peace

25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.
26 But athe Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will bsend in My name, cHe will teach you all things, and bring to your dremembrance all things that I said to you.  
27 aPeace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  
28 You have heard Me asay to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because1 I said, b‘I am going to the Father,’ for cMy Father is greater than I.  
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John 14:16

And I will pray the Father (kagw erwthsw ton patera). Erwtaw for prayer, not question (the old use), also in John 16:23 (prayer to Jesus in same sense as aitew),John 14:26 (by Jesus as here); John 17:9 (by Jesus), "make request of."

Another Comforter (allon paraklhton). Another of like kind (allon, not eteron), besides Jesus who becomes our Paraclete, Helper, Advocate, with the Father (I John 2:1, Cf. Romans 8:26 f.). This old word (Demosthenes), from parakalew, was used for legal assistant, pleader, advocate, one who pleads another's cause (Josephus, Philo, in illiterate papyrus), in N.T. only in John's writings, though the idea of it is in Romans 8:26-34. Cf. Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 336. So the Christian has Christ as his Paraclete with the Father, the Holy Spirit as the Father's Paraclete with us (John 14:16, John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7; I John 2:1).

For ever (eiv ton aiwna). This the purpose (ina) in view and thus Jesus is to be with his people here forever (Matthew 28:20). See John 4:14 for the idiom.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 14:16:

Mark 13:11
John 1:19
John 14:16
John 14:17
John 14:26
John 15:26
John 16:23
John 16:26
Acts 1:6
Romans 8:27
2 Corinthians 1:3
1 John 2:1

 

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