John 14:9

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Cause us to see the Father’?

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

In Context

8"Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied."

10"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.

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Cross References

Mark 9:19"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? How long must I be patient with you? Bring him to me."

John 1:14And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory - glory as of the Father’s only Son - full of grace and truth.

John 12:45"He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

John 14:20"At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Philippians 2:6who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

Matthew Henry on John 14:5-12

Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you,… Read the whole commentary →

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