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.

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