It must surely have warmed their hearts to hear him say to them: “I have called you friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ” ​ — John 15: 15.
यीशु के ये शब्द आज खासकर सभी अभिषिक्‍त मसीहियों पर और कुछ हद तक उनके साथी, “दूसरी भेड़ों ” पर लागू होते हैं ।