Once we enter the farewell discourse, then, all preparatory time has passed and the “hour” of reckoning has arrived. Time is no longer relative; it is refracted through the decisive moment of the hour. In many ways, chaps. 13–17 can be understood as the fourth evangelist’s attempt to freeze the time of the hour in order to explain what the hour will mean before the events of the hour play themselves out in full. Once the events of the hour are put in motion, there will be no time for explanation.