“For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.”
King James Version (KJV)
16:26 At that day ye shall ask - For true knowledge begets prayer. And I say not that I will pray - This in nowise implies that he will not: it means only, The Father himself now loves you, not only because of my intercession, but also because of the faith and love which he hath wrought in you.