It’s fascinating that the longest discourse of Jesus in the entire New Testament is also the most private, the most intimate, the most personal. It is the night of the Last Supper and he’s going to spend this time with his disciples—knowing full well what lies ahead.The disciples, however, understand very little at this point. They don’t realize that they are going to lose him this night and they don’t have a clue where this whole thing is going. We may look back on this and ask why they didn’t understand what was happening. But we have the benefit
