24. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.
25. “I have used figures of speech to tell you these things. But the time will come when I will not use figures of speech, but will speak to you plainly about the Father.
26. When that day comes, you will ask him in my name; and I do not say that I will ask him on your behalf,
27. for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.
28. I did come from the Father, and I came into the world; and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
29. Then his disciples said to him, “Now you are speaking plainly, without using figures of speech.