Excerpt from: "No Fruit Without Death | The Upper Room Discourse, Part 1"
Although Jesus was about to undergo the sufferings of the Cross, he was still loving his disciples until the end–what an amazing expression of his love. Where in these five chapters just Jesus even bring up the fact that his own soul is troubled? Where does he even bring up his own suffering? You know what he doesn’t even bring up his own death except in an offhanded way that he’s going to the Father. Do you get my drift here? It’s like out of love–do you know what happens over these five (John 13-17) chapters? If you’re John if...