Bereansearching Bible Studies

Introduction

This post is the fourth of what will hopefully be ten posts in total to provide verse-by-verse expositions of each of the ten chapters of the Book of Esther. The reader should fully understand that these studies are solely intended to show the many spiritually hidden aspects of God’s Magnificent Salvation Plan, which God has intricately interwoven within the historical account of the Book of Esther. The key to understanding the true meaning of the Book of Esther is to see that the whole book is an Historical Parable, which prophetically points us to the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, Who Is The Only Lord, God, and Savior. Moreover the book is one of concealment (“Esther” in Hebrew means “concealment”) that spans from Old Testament National Israel, to the future fulfillment of the feasts of Passover and Pentecost in the New Testament era, and a “preview” of the yet to be Judgment Day and beyond into eternity in the New Heavens and the New Earth. We can also see key personages of the Bible throughout this book by those who serve as “Types” to each represent 1) God the Father, 2) National Israel, 3) the Lord Jesus Christ, 4) Eternal Israel, 5) The Holy Spirit, and 6) the Devil. A summary overview Christian commentary of the Book of Esther is Here (which also includes a link to a much more comprehensive study).

The Spiritual Theme of Esther Chapter 4: The Atonement of Jesus Christ (Esther 4:1) followed by “three days and nights” of fasting, and petitioning God the Father in Jesus’ Name.

Esther 4:1, “When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;“

The very first thing that a student of the Bible, who is a worshiper of the Lord Jesus Christ and child of God should have come to mind is: Matthew 27:50, “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.” (see also Mark 15:34&37 and Luke 23:46)

A close look at Esther 4:1 will reveal a beautiful summation of the atonement of Jesus Christ, the One Who “perceived all” that God’s Law decrees.  Jesus knew that He must come as the sin bearer to redeem His people and so He humbled Himself (typified by Mordecai’s putting on of sackcloth with ashes), as the king of Nineveh did in Jonah 3:6, “For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.”  Jesus humbled Himself by taking on a human body of low estate to become the sin bearer of all who would believe on Him. 

Incidentally, if we look at Psalms 69:11, in this clearly Messianic Psalm that, “I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb (parable) to them.”  Please remember that Psalm 69 so particularly reveals the details of Christ’s atonement on the cross.  As a result it is the most frequently quoted Psalm referring to Jesus Christ in the New Testament, including that by Jesus Himself.  In Psalms 69:4, “They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.”  Compare this with John 15:24 &25, “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.  But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.” 

In Psalms 69:21 we also read that, “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”  That verse Messianically describes what happened to Jesus while He was hanging on the cross, as we find in Matthew 27:34, “They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.”  Also in John 19:28-30 we read, “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.  Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.  When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”  In verse 9 we find, Psalm 69:9, “For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.”  Compare this with John 2:17 “And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.” and Romans 15:3, “For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.“

If Jesus had not provided a substitutionary atonement for His people, the “Jews,” the Law would demand that they would perish on Judgment Day at the end of the age (typified by the end of the year in Esther).  When Jesus died on the cross in Jerusalem, Jesus completed that work and, like Mordecai, gave out a “loud and bitter cry” as we read Matthew 27:46, “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”  

We should also remember what God says in Lev 13:45 regarding the leprous (unclean) person, “¶And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.” Jesus had to become unclean (as though He was leprous) that the believers might become clean. Praise God, Oh what a Savior! (Please see also Jesus’ Cleansing of the Ten Lepers)

NOTE to the reader…The wicked who are the enemies of Jesus, as Haman was to Mordecai, will suffer the fate that we read of in Psalm 69:22-24, “Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.” Haman’s decree and gallows, with which Haman had hoped to destroy Mordecai, became his own means of destruction.

Esther 4:2, “And came even before the king’s gate: for none [might] enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.“

No unclean thing can come into the presence of God in Heaven. Just as Mordecai was cloaked in sackcloth and ashes, Jesus was made naked, bearing the sins of God’s Elect, and was taken outside the walls and city gates of Jerusalem to be crucified.

Esther 4:3, “And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.“

The decree by God of the future coming of Judgment Day because of sin (disobedience to God’s Commandments) has gone out into the entire world, and wherever it is heard, those people understand that “the wages of sin [is] death” (Romans 6:23) and they mourn in their hearts over their sin knowing that have come under God’s eternal wrath and judgment.

James 4:7-10, “¶Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.“

Esther 4:4, “¶So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told [it] her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received [it] not.“

Notice also the parallels between the actions of Esther (as a type for the Church) and Mordecai in Esther 4:4, “So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told [it] her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received [it] not.”with that of Peter (as another “type” of the Church) and Jesus when Peter attempted to physically defend Jesus and keep Him from His atoning work.  In John 18:10&11 we read, “Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.  Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?“

That cup was the cup of God’s wrath for sin that Jesus had to drink and suffer for the sins of His Elect!

And we should also consider another case where Jesus refused any attempt to relieve his suffering on the cross during The Atonement in Matthew 27:34, “They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.“

Esther 4:5, “Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was], and why it [was].“

Again, we see another of the king’s chamberlains, who like Hegai/Hege earlier, was a eunuch in charge of the women, just as The Holy Spirit watches over and protects Jesus’ Church, and prepares the believers to come into the presence of the King, God Almighty in Heaven.

Hatach: We are first introduced to Hatach here in Esther Chapter 4.  There we see him as the vehicle of communication between Esther and Mordecai in verses 4&5 and between Mordecai and Esther in verses 9&10. It is also interesting to note that Hatach (הֲתָךְ hăṯāḵ reportedly means “Verily” (hence “Truth“)   or possibly also “Gift” ), and is also a proper masculine noun. Both attributes are clearly used in the Bible as representations of the Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit. See for example: for “Truth”; John 14:17, John 15:26, John 16:13 and for “Gift”; Act 2:38, Act 10:45, Hebrews 6:4. It was through him that Esther communed with Mordecai “to know what it [was], and why it [was]” and thereby learned the details of Haman’s plot against the Jews. Hatach was serving in the role of an intercessory communicant!

If we therefore consider that, if Esther represents the eternal Church (the believers) and Mordecai is an allegorical prefigurement of the Lord Jesus Christ, then it would seem quite reasonable to view Hatach, like Hegai earlier, as another “Type” representing God, The Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit.  Most particularly so, because Jesus said, in John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” The Holy Spirit communicates to us The Truth, and we know that Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6). We also know that Salvation is a Gift, for in Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” and Hebrews 6:4 says, “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,…” and in John 14:16-18, “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

We can now more clearly see that both Hegai and Hatach served an important role in ensuring the deliverance of the Jews through preparation and intercession, just as the Holy Spirit Works in the preparation, sanctification, and intercession for the believers.

There is more that the Bible has to say regarding The Personage of The Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost. In addition to the above, we have this in John 3:5-8, “¶Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” 

We are also instructed concerning the anointing, sealing, and being given “the earnest” of the Spirit, God’s Holy Spirit, by Whom we are sealed to the day of redemption as we read in 2 Corinthians 1:21&22, “Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” and Ephesians 1:13&14, “In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

But the Holy Spirit is also a “Go-Between” the Church and Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit petitions, and He intercedes with, the Lord God on behalf of the believers as we read in Romans 8:26, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.“. The Holy Spirit also teaches the believers about Jesus through His Word as we read in John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.“

And so it is in this case between Esther and Mordecai, Hatach is that go-between and conveys the truth of the matter from Mordecai to Esther.

Esther 4:6, “So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which [was] before the king’s gate.”

This is at least somewhat reminiscent of what we read in Luke 22:43, where an angel from heaven met with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane during the Atonement, “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.” The word for angel is from the original Greek word, ἄγγελος (angelos)^G32, which means “a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God.”

Esther 4:7, “And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.”

This is a more difficult passage to relate to Jesus’ Atonement, but we do know that the devil did not only want to destroy Jesus, but all of the people of Jesus.

Esther 4:8, “Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] unto Esther, and to declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.”

Here we see that Esther is first made aware of the first decree (representative of the Law of God promising that Judgment Day is coming at the end of time for sinners). At this point, in the temporal historical account, there is only Judgment in view, with no hope of the people (the Jews) except for intercession pleading for mercy from the king on their behalf.

This is somewhat reminiscent of the fact that Jesus’ Great Commission was that all the believers should take the Gospel message of Salvation to the world and petition the Father in Heaven that the Gospel would go forth triumphantly, bringing in a great multitude of people who would otherwise be destroyed apart from Divine intervention.

Esther 4:9, “And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.”

God’s Holy Spirit teaches us that we are in trouble with God, and that we are all under God’s wrath, and that Judgment Day is soon coming, and our only hope is to cry out to God the Father for Salvation in Jesus’ Name, as there is no other way.

Esther 4:10, “¶Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;“

Now here we see are provided evidence that Esther is afraid, and she is essentially stating the reality that no one can come into the presence of God apart from first being bidden by God.

Esther 4:11, “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the innercourt, who is not called, [there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.“

Esther is stating a truth directly from the Gospel as we read, where Jesus specifically stated, twice for emphasis, the following in John 6:44, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” and John 6:65, “And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.“ And we also know that  Matthew 22:14, “For many are called, but few [are] chosen.” So we can see that the conundrum that Esther faced is the same that every believer faces. The believer is both called and chosen, but does not know that for certain that it is a fact unless he or she heeds the command to “come” as we read in Isaiah 55:3, “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.” And we also know that, ultimately, 2 Corinthians 5:7, “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”. Hebrews 4:16, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.“

Esther 4:12, “And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.”

Mordecai heard and understood Esther’s predicament.

Esther 4:13, “¶Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.“

Mordecai was saying in effect that, just because she is the queen, she will still not escape the judgment that is decreed, because she is still a Jew by ancestry.

Esther 4:14, “For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, [then] shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this?“

This is somewhat reminiscent of what we learn from Jesus in His Parable of the Talents. We cannot be afraid or we will be destroyed just like the unprofitable servant in that Parable.

Isaiah 51:12&13, “I, [even] I, am he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made as grass; And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?“

Here we seen Mordecai (an allegorical “Type” of Jesus) conveying to Esther (an allegorical “Type” of the Believers) by Hatach (an allegorical “Type” of the Holy Spirit), “For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”  By implication, if Esther had not faithfully taken up the instruction to go forth to the king as Mordecai had commanded, she would have been destroyed as a wicked and unprofitable servant. And note what kind of destruction is reserved for the wicked and unprofitable servant as we read in Mark’s version, “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”   We know from elsewhere in the Bible that outer darkness is equated to Hell.  Hell is for the unsaved sinners who reject Jesus and His Gospel message as found in the Bible. Jesus is equated by God with God’s Word, the Bible, and hence rejecting God’s Word is rejecting Jesus.

Moreover, God warns us very clearly.  There is no reason to be “afraid” of what mankind might say or do to us when we stand up for the Truth through the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but rather we should fear (show reverence and obedience) to God.  In Matthew 10:28, Jesus proclaimed, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”  That latter “him” is God Himself! 

We know from Psalm 27:1 “¶[[A Psalm of David.]] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” and Romans 8:31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who [can be] against us?”

We must be willing to also die, if it were to become necessary to remain faithful in preaching the Gospel of Salvation in Jesus Christ. However, even if we continue to live, we must do so in keeping with Romans 12:1, “¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.“

God gives us a glimpse of how God views those who are “afraid“. To God, those who are afraid are like the “slothful” person in Proverbs 22:13, “The slothful (עָצֵל (ʿāṣēl))^H6102 [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets..“, and again in Proverbs 26:13, “The slothful (עָצֵל (ʿāṣēl))^H6102 [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets“.

Moreover, if we read and ponder what we find in Mark 8:38, “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.“, then we will see that being “afraid” is much as being “ashamed” of Jesus and His Words, the Word of God.

And for additional proof, note what the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” and in 2 Timothy 1:12, “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”

The Believer, rather than be afraid, slothful, or ashamed, should welcome every opportunity to say just as the prophet Isaiah said, “Here am I; send me” in Isaiah 6:8, “¶Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me.“

Esther Plans to Intercede

Esther 4:15, “¶Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer],“

Esther made petition to Mordecai via the intermediary, Hatach, the following:

Esther 4:16 “Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.”

Note that there is no specific reference to prayer and supplications to God in this verse, as it only mentions communal “fasting”.

Note that we had already compared Mordecai putting on sackcloth and sitting in ashes, and giving out a loud and bitter cry, which foreshadowed the suffering Atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross.  But now we can see mention of a period of three days. It is clearly reminiscent of the three days and three night period of Jesus’ Atoning Sacrifice (His death, burial, and torment in Hell for the equivalent of Eternity)…beginning with Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane on Thursday night (Passover evening) until His Resurrection on Sunday, Easter morning, which was on the third day, 1 Corinthians 15:4 “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:“

We see many references to “Three days (and three nights)” in the Bible. Some of the more prominent ones include:

1. Jonah 1:17, “Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.“
2. Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.“
3. Nehemiah 2:11, “¶ So I (Nehemiah) came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.“
4. Exodus 3:18, “And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days‘ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.”
5. Exodus 5:3, “And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days‘ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
6. Exodus 8:27, “We will go three days‘ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.”
7. Jonah 3:3, “So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days‘ journey.“

Finally, we see that Esther resigned herself to the reality that “If I perish, I perish.” But are we not told that the believers should come boldly unto the throne room of grace as we read in Hebrews 4:16, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” This is exactly what Esther was told to do by Mordecai, and she knew that was exactly what she had to do to obtain mercy and to find Regal help in that desperate time of need. There simply was no other way.

Other verses to consider are these words from Jesus:

Matthew 16:25, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.“

Mark 8:35, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.“

Luke 9:24, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.“

(More on this in Esther Chapter 5.)

We should also consider what we find in Psalm 119:58, “I intreated thy (God’s) favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.“

Finally, should not all believers take to heart the admonition penned by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:13, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”

Esther 4:17, “¶So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.”

This verse is a bit difficult to understand from a spiritual perspective, as it does suggest that Esther “commanded” Mordecai (as opposed to “requesting”), such that Moredecai appears to hierarchically “obey” Esther. Even from an historical earthly viewpoint this appears somewhat strange, as Mordecai was Esther’s male elder, and Mordecai served in the office of her deceased father.

However, we also know the following which might be relevant from the spiritual perspective

1. Philippians 4:6&7, “¶Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.“
2. Jesus said John 14:13&14, “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it].
3. Matthew 7:7&8, “¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” and similarly in Luke 11:9&10, “¶ And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.“

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