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I would ever be careful lest I should appear to differentiate between the value of one part of Holy Scripture and another, 

but no one will deny that when we come to this chapter (John 17) we are at the center of all the sanctities.

C. G. Morgan

The author herein considers that one of the most significant features of the prayer is the names of God. Morgan and a host of other scholars opined that God's name can only be "I AM." However, addressing God is another matter. In the Kingdom of God there are new names for God ".... Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ) and a new name for the people (Christians; Acts11:26)" - James B.Jorden.

Furthermore, Jesus prayed out loud  audibly for the benefit of the Apostles and addressed God intimately as Heavenly Father, Holy Father, and Righteous This is similar to how He taught  disciples to pray in the Lord's Prayer: 

"Our Father who art in heaven (i.e. Heavenly Father), hallowed be thy name (Holy Father). Thy (Righteous) kingdom (of the Father) come ........." (of course, since Jesus is sinless, He cannot pray the latter half of the prayer and He didn't).

These addresses also correspond with John 1:13b (the center of the Prologue's chiasm): "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. " which refers, in a negative sense, to the earthly fathers, the world/evil fathers, and the unrighteous fathers. 

It will be shown in another Tab, that John 1:12&13 have structural significance to the whole Gospel. We can also relate it to the center of John 17 chiasm, namely, sanctification in action means "going to the Father" by negating the fathers who are earthly, worldly and unrighteous (we shall elaborate in a separate section regarding how 1:13b, according to some scholars implies Jesus' virgin birth that analogous to every Christian rebirth). And indeed, many of narratives in John can be interpreted with the Father vs. the fathers delineation.

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1. Chiasm (Objections in Tab Chiasm)

2. The Lord's Prayer in John 17

3. The two pillars of John

4. Taking the common key words/ key concepts/ key visions in the Prologue and the Lord's Prayer in John 17

5. Postulating the themes that have structural significance in the Gospel's narrative

6. Borrowing other scholars' findings