John 16:23 (YLT)

Passage

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;

Nearby Context

John 16:21 `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

John 16:22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

John 16:23 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;

John 16:24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

John 16:25 `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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "question", "nothing", "verily", "things", "father", "name", and "give". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "question" and "nothing", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 22's "And ye therefore now indeed have sorrow..." into verse 24's "till now ye did ask nothing in...", so "question" and "nothing" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "question" and "nothing" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.