23 And in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you; 24till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25‘These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

26 ‘In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you, 27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.’ 29His disciples say to him, ‘Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou; 30now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.’ 31Jesus answered them, ‘Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour, 32and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me; 33these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.’

Chapter 17