Jesus is with his disciples, probably at the foot of the Mount of Olives, in the Garden of Gethsemane, or walking that way. In these final hours, he stops and prays. The other gospels report that Jesus prayed; John here records some details of the prayer.
John 17: 20-24, Prayer for those that will follow
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—
23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Jesus prays that all his followers will act in unity and that they will see his "glory", his attributes, available before Creation.
John 17: 25-26, Transferable love
“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.”
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