The notion of making God known by revealing his name also takes us back to Yahweh’s Angel in the Old Testament. Recall that Yahweh’s Angel was Yahweh in human form—Yahweh’s “name” or presence resided in that Angel (Exod 23:20–23). John draws on that language in his presentation of Jesus as God.6 When Jesus says he has “kept them in your name,” he means he has kept those followers the Father gave to him by means of God’s own power and presence—the Name, now incarnated in Jesus.
