Bible Strands
John 14:7
If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses His disciples during the Upper Room discourse, directly responding to Philip’s request to see the Father.
The words — ἐγνὼκατε (egnōkate) translates as “you have known,” and πατέρα (patera) translates as “Father.”
The thread — The equation of knowing Jesus with knowing the Father runs through John 8:19 and Luke 10:22, while Colossians 1:15 establishes the Son as the visible image of the invisible God.
Why it lands — The text states that knowledge of Jesus produces knowledge of the Father and declares the Father has already been seen. It requires readers to abandon the search for a separate manifestation and accept Christ as the definitive revelation of God.
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The Greek words
King James Version
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Cross-references
- Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- John 8:19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
- Luke 10:22 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
- John 17:8 For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- John 17:6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
- John 14:9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
- John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
- John 16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
- John 17:21 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- John 17:23 I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.