Jesus answered them, 'Do you now believe? The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me' — Jesus' question reveals the fragility of the disciples' faith; they claim to believe, yet the coming hour will expose how shallow their faith is. Scattering (diaskorpizō—scatter, disperse) is the fate of the disciples at the crucifixion; they abandon Jesus, each fleeing to his own home. Yet even in this abandonment, Jesus is not alone; the Father remains with him. This is the deepest loneliness and the deepest communion: Jesus abandoned by humans yet held by God.

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