John 14:8

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Philip said,“Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.”

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  • Exod 33:18-23 : 18 And Moses said,“Show me your glory.” 19 And the LORD said,“I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.” 21 The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”
  • Exod 34:5-7 : 5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name. 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
  • Job 33:26 : 26 He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  • John 1:43-46 : 43 The Calling of More Disciples On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him,“Follow me.” 44 (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.) 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him,“We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about– Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael replied,“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied,“Come and see.”
  • John 6:5-7 : 5 Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) 7 Philip replied,“Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”
  • John 12:21-22 : 21 So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested,“Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.
  • John 16:25 : 25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • Rev 22:3-5 : 3 And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him, 4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    88%

    9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 14:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    4 And you know the way where I am going.”

    5 Thomas said,“Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

    6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

    7 If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

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    21 So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested,“Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

    22 Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.

  • 19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • 72%

    20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

    22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

    23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

  • 25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 6:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”

    6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

    7 Philip replied,“Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

  • 71%

    26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

    27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • 70%

    29 His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

    30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”

  • 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

  • 37 Jesus told him,“You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”[

  • 45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

  • 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • 43 The Calling of More Disciples On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him,“Follow me.”

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    23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

    25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

  • 38 So they said,“Look, Lord, here are two swords.” Then he told them,“It is enough.”

  • 28 Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

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    15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

  • 28 You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • 30 The Father and I are one.”

  • 28 Thomas replied to him,“My Lord and my God!”

  • Acts 8:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30 So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked him,“Do you understand what you’re reading?”

    31 The man replied,“How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

  • 4 So Peter said to Jesus,“Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three shelters– one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

  • John 8:55-56
    2 verses
    68%

    55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

    56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

  • 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • 35 So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

  • 19 Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them,“Are you asking each other about this– that I said,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

  • 8 Jesus replied,“I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.”

  • 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.