Jesus Prayed This WHY For Us the Night He Was Arrested (“that the love you have for me... ”)

It was just before the Passover Festival; Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world.

He had just washed their feet, predicted his death for a final time, and predicted Peter’s denial three times before the rooster crows. (John 13)

This was his last night with his disciples before his death.

To comfort, to assure, to inspire, to teach, to enlighten... to prepare them.

Jesus had just told his disciples that the time is coming that He will no longer speak figuratively. And the disciples were beginning to understand what Jesus came to do. 

Then He turned to His Heavenly Father. 

John 17:25

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

That night Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane.