Everything Jesus says for the rest of this chapter he says without Judas the betrayer being present. It is fitting, because betrayal and murder certainly is not consistent with love.
Yet Jesus starts off talking about being glorified, which means being crucified. If we are honest, we don't see the glory of the Cross with our human eyes. Also, what does it mean to say that God the Father is glorified in Jesus? I think that God is glorified in the life of Jesus as much or more than he is in the death of Jesus.
Jesus says that his time there with them is growing short.
No one quite understands that Jesus will ascend back into heaven, after his death and resurrection. We assume that St. Peter is honestly confused, rather than thinking Jesus is crazy, as his opponents probably did.
We have to think that we are able to follow Jesus later because he will give us the power to get to heaven with him. I don't think it's too much of a reach, because St. John told us all the way back at the beginning that those who received Jesus would have the right to become children of God.
We have to talk about what St. John means--and Jesus means--when they say "love." On the one hand, we can look around at our world, and see people arguing and shouting, knowing that no matter how right they might be, that isn't love. On the other hand, love is not a feeling. We can't decide what love is necessarily by how it feels. If you have ever seen the movie "Million Dollar Baby," you know that Clint Eastwood's character doesn't want his fighter to suffer, after she is injured in a fight. She won't walk again. He might've thought that he was being compassionate, by not letting her live in such a state. But to truly love, we must will the good for someone else. If it's not good to kill her because she is hurt, then killing her is not an act of love, no matter how well-intentioned it was.
"Love" for St. John is supernatural fellowship with God. Since God is love, the love that St. John is talking about, and that Jesus is telling us about, is sharing in the life of God itself. We don't have that power on our own, but God gives it to us, because he wants us to be with him in heaven.
So there is a balance: we often know love when we see it, but sometimes we can be tricked by our feelings. If you've ever had to tell someone that they are being foolish or dangerous, and they don't necessarily receive it very well, you know the tension of trying to be loving, but not necessarily being popular.
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