Referring to his followers, he said to God in prayer: “I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them. ” ​ — John 17: 26.
فقد قال عن تلاميذه في صلاته الى الله :‏ « عرّفتهم باسمك وسأعرّفهم به ،‏ لتكون فيهم المحبة التي احببتني بها وأكون انا في اتحاد بهم » .‏ —‏ يوحنا ١٧ :‏ ٢٦‏ .‏