At the conclusion of Jesus' intimate time of preparing his disciples for his impending death, He pauses to pray.

On the eve of his betrayal by Judas, Jesus promised his confused and fearful disciples a pathway to heaven and power from heaven.

Jesus prepares his disciples for the monumental changes that are coming because of His death on the cross. The disciples, however, are disturbed because Jesus tells them that they cannot go where He is going.

The miracle of God becoming flesh is mind-blowing and revolutionary, but it has become almost old hat in our culture because we've heard of it so often. In John 1:14, the author purposefully directs the reader's attention to the Old Testament tabernacle and shows us how it always pointed forward to Jesus.