Philip said to him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied' — Philip's request voices the deepest human longing: to see God directly, to have unmediated encounter with the divine. His plea "and we will be satisfied" reflects the Psalmist's yearning (as in Psalm 42:2, my soul thirsts for God) to be satisfied in God's presence. Yet Philip does not realize that the Father has been shown, that the request has already been answered in Jesus' very presence; Philip looks for God elsewhere when God stands before him.

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