John 14:6-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth[a] and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.(A) 7 If you know me, then you will also know my Father.[b] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”(B) 8 Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father,[c] and that will be enough for us.”(C) 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a 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’?(D) 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.(E) 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.(F)
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- 14:6 The truth: in John, the divinely revealed reality of the Father manifested in the person and works of Jesus. The possession of truth confers knowledge and liberation from sin (Jn 8:32).
- 14:7 An alternative reading, “If you knew me, then you would have known my Father also,” would be a rebuke, as in Jn 8:19.
- 14:8 Show us the Father: Philip is pictured asking for a theophany like Ex 24:9–10; 33:18.
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