So the disciples went back to their homes.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

Then Jesus asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), “where are you staying?”

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.