110 Paul Danove illustrates the sixteen occurrences in statements by characters (Matt 5:42; 6:8; 7:7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Luke 6:30; 11:9, 10, 11, 12, 13; 12:48; 1 Cor 1:22; 1 Pet 3:15); and the third example illustrates the statement by a character in which the conditional clause specifies the motivation for asking and not a constraint on the action itself (John 4:10). αἰτήσας πινακίδιον ἔγραψεν λέγων· ᾿Ιωάννης ἐστὶν ὄνομα αὐτοῦ (Luke 1:63) Asking for a writing tablet, he wrote saying, “John is his name”. αἰτεῖτε καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν (Matt 7:7) Ask and it will be given to you. εἰ ᾔδεις τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τίς ἐστιν ὁ λέγων σοι· δός μοι πεῖν, σὺ ἂν ᾔτησας αὐτὸν καὶ ἔδωκεν ἄν σοι ὕδωρ ζῶν (John 4:10) If you knew the gift of God and who is the one saying to you, “Give me [something] to drink”, you would ask him and he would give to you living water. In the remaining seven active occurrences, statements by Jesus intro- duce constraints on the action. The statements cast his disciples as Agent, and the perspective for recognizing constraints is that of Jesus. In Matt 21:22 the verb and constraint appear in a relative condition that specifies believing as the constraint, and the following assurance that the request will be given claims that this constraint will be recognized and fulfilled.12 πάντα ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσητε ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ πιστεύοντες λήμψεσθε (Matt 21:22) All things, which you ask for by prayer believing [i.e., with faith], you will receive. The next two occurrences appear in John 14:13-14. In v. 13 the verb and constraint appear in a relative condition that specifies believing and asking by Jesus’ name as the constraints, and the following assurance that the request will be given claims that these constraints will be recognized and fulfilled.13 In v. 14 the verb and constraint of asking by Jesus’ name 12 See the discussion of conditional relative clauses in Smyth, Grammar, 578-79. 13 This discussion does not assume that asking by Jesus’ name merely requires the intro- duction of Jesus’ name in requests. The prior stress on the need to believe in the name (εἰς τὸ ὄνομα, 1:12; 2:23; 3:18) of Jesus would indicate that asking by Jesus’ name also requires believing in Jesus’ name. The discussion of constraints recognizes and accommodates this further implication.