Gospel Note
These verses are the end of the so-called "high priestly prayer," which culminates John's version of the Last Supper. The supplication of the first four verses (20-23) is for Christian unity, but of a very particular kind. This unity is not external in nature, but deeply spiritual and intimate (with God "in" the Christ, the Christ "in" God, and believers "in" both); it is not mundane, institutional or organizational, but a matter of the glory of God shared with the Christ and one another; and i…