17:12
In John 18:9 Jesus says that He has not lost one of those that the Father gave Him. Only the “son of destruction” was lost, and that was all part of the plan. This is referring to Judas. Jesus protected His disciples. Soon things would be different, for Jesus would not be with the disciples in the physical sense. Now He does say in Matt 28:20 that He will be with us till the end of the age, but this would be through the Holy Spirit. We see here the unity of the Trinity, and each person of the Trinity is God.
17:13
Jesus was now coming to the Father. The road there would involve the cross and the resurrection, but He was going to the Father. It seems that Jesus was praying these things out loud so that the disciples would hear them. He did this so that His joy would be fulfilled in us. We all want to be happy, but we often seek this joy or happiness in the wrong way. It normally involves us wanting circumstances to change. Jesus offers us a deeper and more sustainable joy than that.
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