Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me — The invocation "Righteous Father" (Pater dikaia) emphasizes God's justice and faithfulness. The stark contrast—the world's ignorance versus Jesus' intimate knowledge (oida) and the disciples' awakening faith—underscores the exclusive particularity of salvation knowledge. Yet within this particularity lies the universal gospel: the disciples' knowledge becomes the means through which the world may come to know.

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