I noticed Jesus' words at the end of chapter 14: "Arise, let us go hence."
Then chapters 15-17 continue the discourse that he began as he and his disciples sat together at the passover feast and the end of that (chapter 17) is his wonderful intercessory prayer.
So I imagined that these chapters may have been a message to his disciples, spoken out of doors, beneath a night sky, somewhere between the upper room in Jerusalem and the Gethsemane garden.
Cloudy or clear, given the general absence of light pollution, the sky would have been magnificent.
And I imagine, under that night sky, these phrases:
"All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you."
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace."
"O Father...I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from the, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them."
"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth."
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us;"
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