It was just before the feast of the Passover. Jesus, knowing that the time had come when he would depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going. But y’all don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.
Y’all heard me say to y’all, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to y’all.’ If y’all loved me, y’all would have rejoiced because I am going to my Father, for the Father is greater than I.
I am no longer in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them through your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jesus said to them, “If God were y’all’s Father, y’all would love me, for I proceeded from God and am now present. I haven’t come on my own initiative, but ʜᴇ sent me.