Why do you ask my name?

Once upon a time, Jacob had a wrestling match with an angel of God. Result was a TKO for Jacob. Actually, Jacob lost it but the Lord gave him a win for the wrestle stopped with the angel striking the socket of Jacob's hip.

Jacob realized the presence of God that as the angel was about to leave  Jacob asked him for a blessing.

The Lord granted. He gave Jacob a new name "ISRAEL" meaning "you have struggled with men and God and overcame." 

Then Jacob asked the man for his name. But the man responded "Why do you ask my name?" The angel then blessed him and left. Jacob realized he had an encounter with God. 

A question: why did the Lord say "Why do you ask my name?" The answer is in the account of Manoah's encounter with the LORD, that is, "because his name is beyond understanding." Judges 13:18 

Perhaps the ancient Chinese thinker Lao Tsu understood the incomprehensible nature of the NAME of God that he stated at the beginning chapter of the book "Tao Te Ching" - "The TAO that can be told Tao is no longer Tao; The NAME that can be named cannot be the NAME."

Similarly in chapter one of the book Joong-yong (meaning Gold Mean) 

Tao is such that none is capable of departing from it; otherwise, it cannot be Tao. 

Yet when a man whose name was given from above that is Jesus came to earth he said plainly, "I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE."

Then to a man named "Nicodemus" who wanted to see and enter the kingdom of God Jesus said straight: 

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Not all truth seekers are lucky to find 'the' truth. BUT lucky was the man named John the son of Zebedee, for after following the man from Galilee of Nazareth for a period of time he was able to testify: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched -- this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 1 John 1:1-2