If ye shall ask anything
These words are much, the same with the former, and have been
thought, by some, to have crept into the text from the margin;
though they seem rather to be repeated by Christ, the more to
strengthen and confirm the faith of his disciples in this matter;
that whatsoever they asked
in my name,
either calling upon it, he being equally the object of prayer
with the Father, or making mention of it, pleading the merits of
his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; whatever was according
to the will of God, was for his glory, and their real good, he
would do it for them, as well when absent from them, as present
with them.