7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
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Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: …
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
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.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)Christ, having set the happiness of heaven before them as the end, here shows them himself as the way to it, and tells them that they were better acquainted both with the end they were to aim at and with the way they were to walk in than they thought they were: You know , that is, 1. “You may know; it is none of the secret things which belong not to you, but one of the things revealed ; you need n…
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