Back up about five or ten verses. Jesus, we are told, had spent the night in prayer to God, that is to say, engaged in the highest form of human thinking, conversation and listening. A whole night. It probably wasn t the first time. Kings and Queens have ambassadors.
Heads of states have ambassadors.
Jesus appointed twelve ambassadors. My guess is that Jesus had found in his communion with God a vision of life that would radically rearrange conventional human relationships. Jesus envisioned God s will being done on earth as it is in heaven now, or soon, here, not in some distant, other worldly realm. Your kindom, your community come. In this place.