The narrative begins " before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour () had come that He should depart from this world to the Father", [when "having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." The appointed hour, anticipated earlier in the gospel () had now arrived. Jesus had announced publicly in that "the hour when the Son of Man should be glorified" had now arrived, and He had declined in to ask His Father to "save from this hour" ().