9Jesus 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?
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Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
I and my Father are one.
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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