Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works through me — the mutual indwelling of Father and Son (en tō patri—in the Father, en emoi—in me) is the heart of Jesus' identity and mission; he is not a messenger reporting God's words but the very presence of God's creative and redemptive action in human form. The words Jesus speaks and the works he performs are not his own achievement but the Father's activity mediated through him; he is the transparent medium through which God's love operates in the world.

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