“Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you all this time, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father"?' — the rebuke is gentle but firm: all the signs, all the teachings, all the intimate presence Jesus has offered have not penetrated to true knowing. The radical claim—"whoever has seen me has seen the Father"—is not merely mystical poetry but the fundamental assertion of Johannine Christology: in Jesus, the invisible God becomes visible; the eternal Word becomes flesh and dwells among us. To ask to see the Father while looking upon Jesus is the ultimate blindness, a refusal to see what stands before one's eyes.
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John 14:9
“Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you all this time, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father"?' — the rebuke is gentle but firm: all the signs, all the teachings, all the intimate presence Jesus has offered have not penetrated to true knowing. The radical claim—"whoever has seen me has seen the Father"—is not merely mystical poetry but the fundamental assertion of Johannine Christology: in Jesus, the invisible God becomes visible; the eternal Word becomes flesh and dwells among us. To ask to see the Father while looking upon Jesus is the ultimate blindness, a refusal to see what stands before one's eyes.
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Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you all this time, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father"?' — the rebuke is gentle but firm: all the signs, all the teachings, all the intimate presence Jesus has offered have not penetrated to true knowing. The radical claim—"whoever has seen me has seen the Father"—is not merely mystical poetry but the fundamental assertion of Johannine Christology: in Jesus, the invisible God becomes visible; the eternal Word becomes flesh and dwells among us. To ask to see the Father while looking upon Jesus is the ultimate blindness, a refusal to see what stands before one's eyes.