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.”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Jesus, rejoicing in the Holy Spirit, turns to the disciples between praising the Father (v. 21) and blessing their eyes (v. 23). He speaks this as a declaration, not a question.

The words — πᾶντα (panta), "all things," is the object of the Father's entrusting; it is unqualified and total.

The thread — Matthew 11:27 is the parallel; John 1:18 and John 6:44 extend the same logic of exclusive revelation and drawn access.

Why it lands — It removes the option of self-constructed knowledge of God; the reader must accept that knowing the Father is a gift mediated by the Son, not an achievement.

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The Greek words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

Matthew 11:27 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 17:26 And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
2 John 1:9 Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.