(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.