world is not content even with a threefold utterance of them. He urges His disciples to obey His command “to ask.” In fact, He tells them that one sign of their being His “friends” will be the obedience to His commands in all things (verse 14). Then He once more repeats His wishes: “Ye did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father, in My name, He may give it you” (John 15:16). One
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