All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. The Johannine thunderbolt in Matthew — the verse that sounds unlike the Synoptic tradition and like the Gospel of John — is the comprehensive claim of mutual exclusive knowledge between Father and Son. The Son is not merely a teacher about the Father but the one through whom the Father is exclusively known. The chooses to reveal him communicates the sovereign grace of the revelation: the knowledge of the Father is given, not achieved.

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