In today's gospel, we have a very moving last part of the farewell speech that Jesus gives to the apostles, and he prays this prayer before them in which he is thanking the Father for giving those apostles to him as a gift. In fact, Jesus's very words are: “Father, they are your gift to me.” And then: “I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.”