I’ve Made Know Your Name

In John 17 Jesus says that he had made know God’s name to his followers. Here is a short narrative involving three characters from the Trilogy Series that help us understand what Jesus meant.

The courtyard was quieter than it had been the night before.

Most had already gone. The air still carried the echo of voices, but what remained now was the kind of silence that follows something you don’t yet understand.

Leah sat near the edge of the stone wall, her hands folded loosely in her lap. Tobias stood a few steps away, pacing—not out of restlessness, but because his thoughts refused to settle. Zeke leaned against a pillar, arms crossed, watching both of them.

It was Tobias who spoke first.

“He said something last night I can’t move past.”

Leah looked up. “He said many things like that.”

Tobias gave a faint smile, but it didn’t last.
“No… this one felt different.” He hesitated, searching for the words. “He said He had revealed the Name.”

Zeke shifted slightly. “Isn’t that just a way of saying He taught about God?”

Tobias stopped pacing. Slowly, he shook his head.

“That’s what I thought at first.” He looked at his hands, as if weighing something invisible. “But we already have the Name. We’ve always had it. We don’t even speak it lightly. We guard it.”

Leah’s voice was soft. “So why would He say He revealed it?”

That was the question that lingered between them.

Zeke pushed off the pillar. “Maybe it’s like everything else He says. Sounds simple… isn’t.”

Tobias exhaled. “In our tradition, the Name isn’t just what you call God. It’s who He is. His character. His ways. His presence among us.”

Leah nodded slowly. “Then… to reveal the Name…” She trailed off, her brow tightening as the thought formed. “It would mean showing people what God is actually like.”

No one spoke for a moment.

A memory seemed to pass silently between them.

The leper who had approached when no one else would.
The way Jesus hadn’t stepped back.
The way He touched him.

Zeke spoke, quieter now. “And when He forgave that man… before healing him…” He shook his head slightly. “That wasn’t how I thought God worked.”

Tobias looked up, something shifting in his expression. “That’s just it.” His voice had softened. “I’ve spent my life studying the Law… preserving what was given. I thought I knew the Name because I knew the words.”

Leah met his eyes.

“And now?”

Tobias didn’t answer right away.

Instead, he said, almost to himself,
“When He speaks… when He moves… it’s as if the words I’ve known all my life suddenly have a face.”

Zeke let out a quiet breath. “You’re saying… He’s not just teaching about God.”

Tobias shook his head again, this time more certain.

“I think He’s showing us.”

Leah’s gaze drifted for a moment, as if following something just beyond sight.

“The mercy…” she said slowly. “The way He sees people… the way He doesn’t turn away…”

Her voice caught slightly, but she continued.

“If that is what God is like… then I have not known Him the way I thought I did.”

The weight of that realization didn’t feel crushing.

It felt… opening.

Zeke looked between them. “So when He says He revealed the Name…”

Tobias finished the thought.

“He means… if you’ve been with Him…”

Leah whispered it, almost in wonder.

“You’ve begun to see who God really is.”

The courtyard fell quiet again.

But this time, it was not the silence of confusion.

It was the silence of something beginning to come into view.