Luke 10:22 — Community Reflections

LUKE 10:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”

All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him — the thunderbolt saying is the most explicit claim of divine mutual knowledge in the Synoptic Gospels: the Father and the Son know each other exclusively, and the Son reveals the Father to those he chooses. All things committed to me: the comprehensive authority of the Son. The mutual knowledge of Father and Son communicates the relational equality that grounds the authority.

Church Fathers on Luke 10:22

As a loving father rejoices to see his sons do right, so Christ also rejoices that His Apostles were made worthy of such good things. Hence it follows, In that hour, &c.
Theophylact · 11th century

He saw in truth that through the operation of the Holy Spirit, which He gave to the holy Apostles, the acquisition of many would be made, (or that many would be brought to the faith.) He is said therefore to have rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, that is, in the results which came forth through the Holy Spirit. For as one who to be mankind He considered the conversion of sinners to be a subject for rejoicing, for which He gives thanks. As it follows, I give thanks to you, O…
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Confessing does not always signify penitence, but also thanks airing, as is frequently found in the Psalms.
Bede · 8th century

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