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1	Just looking for thoughts on this verse	John 14:9	parabil	189953
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2	Just looking for thoughts on this verse	John 14:9	BradK	189973
	Hello parabil, Here is the verse: John 14:9- "Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?" (NASB) Certainly it would be important to look at the surrounding context of verse 9 before making conclusions. My thought would be to read the entire chapter for starters. Here is what a couple Commentators say regarding this passage: 1. 14:8-9. "Philip expressed a universal desire of mankind: to see God (cf. Ex. 33:18). In a perverted form this desire leads to idolatry. Philip was probably longing for a theophany (cf. Ex. 24:9-10; Isa. 6:1) or some visible display of God’s glory. Jesus’ statement, Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father (cf. John 12:45), is one of the most staggering claims He ever made. The Father is in Jesus and Jesus perfectly reveals Him (1:18). Hence no theophany was necessary, for by seeing Jesus they were seeing the Father!" [John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck and Dallas Theological Seminary, The Bible Knowledge Commentary] 2. 8–12. "The substance of this passage is that the Son is the ordained and perfect manifestation of the Father, that His own word for this ought to His disciples to be enough; that if any doubts remained His works ought to remove them (see on Jn 10:37); but yet that these works of His were designed merely to aid weak faith, and would be repeated, nay exceeded, by His disciples, in virtue of the power He would confer on them after His departure. His miracles the apostles wrought, though wholly in His name and by His power, and the “greater” works—not in degree but in kind—were the conversion of thousands in a day, by His Spirit accompanying them." [Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, A. R. Fausset et al., A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory] I hope this will help, BradK

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