Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we are hearing John’s account of Jesus alone, praying to the Father, before he gathers his friends to go across the Kidron Valley to a garden. The beginning of today’s appointed passage can be understood as the point of Jesus’ prayer. He says, “Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, in order that they may be one just as we.”[1] That’s a very big ask. In other words, he asks that believers should have the relationship with each other that God the Son has with God the Father.
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