That same evening, Jesus prayed for the loving unity of his apostles, asking his heavenly Father: “May [they] all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us,... in order that they may be one just as we are one. ” ​ — John 17: 21, 22.
त्यानं आपल्या स्वर्गीय पित्याला अशी विनंती केली: “हे माझ्या बापा, जसा तू माझ्यामध्ये व मी तुझ्यामध्ये तसे त्यांनीही तुझ्यामाझ्यामध्ये एक व्हावे. ” — योहा. १७: २१, २२. १२, १३.