Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
- Date
- 1611
- Local voice
- Reported speaker · Jesus
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy…”
Full joy is connected with asking and receiving inside a relationship of trust, rather than with passive wishfulness.
Where does it come from?
John 16:24 in the King James Version; concluding clause of the verse.
Why the local voice matters
John 16:24 in the King James Version preserves this wording as reported speech. The biblical passage remains the textual source while Jesus is stored as the local reported speaker.
