John 14:11 (WEB)
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
Fathers and councils · 45
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.12Book VIII
““For,” says He, “My Father is in Me, and I in Him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 11, and xvii. 21.
Read the whole comment
Gregory of Nyssa
“And if He be said to dwell “in the light that no man can approach unto,” again we make no difficulty in understanding that the true Light, unapproachable by falsehood, is the Only-begotten, in Whom we learn from the Truth itself that the Father is.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 11
Read the whole comment“For if they make out that to exist in something is an indication of not existing in the strict sense, then certainly they allow that not even the Father exists absolutely, as they have learnt in the Gospel, that just as the Son abides in the Father, so the Father abides in the Son, according to the words of the Lord.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 11
Read the whole comment
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And if this world were made by the angels (it matters not whether we suppose their ignorance or their cognizance of the Supreme God), when the Lord declared, “For I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,” how could this workmanship of the angels have borne to be burdened at once with the Father and the Son?” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Tertullian
“The Word, therefore, is both always in the Father, as He says, “I am in the Father;” and is always with God, according to what is written, “And the Word was with God;” and never separate from the Father, or other than the Father, since “I and the Father are one.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“And then, again, by saying, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me,” He laid the greater stress on His question on this very account, that He should not, because He had said, “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father,” be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Athanasius of Alexandria
“For He, knowing Himself whose Son He was, said, ‘I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me;’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and ‘I and the Father are One;’ but nowhere is He found to call the Father Unoriginate.” — editor's note: John xiv. 11; xiv. 9; x. 30. These three texts are found together frequently in Athan. particularly in Orat. iii. where he considers the doctrines of the…
Read the whole comment“And whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.’” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 9–13.
Read the whole comment“But the Lord, Who always has scoffed at the devil, does the same even now, saying, ‘I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
John Damascene
“For the subsistences dwell in one another, in no wise confused but cleaving together, according to the word of the Lord, I am in the father, and the father in Me: nor can one admit difference in will or judgment or energy or power or anything else whatsoever which may produce actual and absolute separation in our case.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Thou seest that the Son is God, having in Himself God the Father: saying almost the very same which He has said in the Gospels: The Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Ambrose of Milan
“So again, when you read, “The Lord rained from the Lord,” acknowledge the unity of Godhead, for unity in operation doth not allow of more than one individual God, even as the Lord Himself has shown, saying: “Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or believe Me for the very works’ sake.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 38; xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
John Chrysostom
“As, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me” ( xiv. 11 ); and, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.” ( xiv. 9.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Or if not, believe Me for the very works’ sake.” ( c. xiv. 10, 11.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment
Basil the Great
“For all things that are the Father’s are beheld in the Son, and all things that are the Son’s are the Father’s; because the whole Son is in the Father and has all the Father in Himself.” — editor's note: cf. John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Augustine of Hippo
“Therefore these three things are marvellously inseparable from each other, and yet each of them is severally a substance, and all together are one substance or essence, whilst they are mutually predicated relatively.” — editor's note: [Augustin here illustrates, by the ternary of mind, love, and knowledge, what the Greek Trinitarians denominate the περιχώρησις of the divine essence. By the…
Read the whole comment
Hilary of Poitiers
“…all things that are Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and That they may know Thee, the only true God, or between I in the Father and the Father in Me, and But of the day and hour knoweth no one, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father only, is explained by a discrimination between gradual…” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“They must hear, I came out from the Fatherand The Son in the Father’s bosom, and I and the Father are One, and I in the Father, and the Father in Me.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“The words of the Lord, I in the Father, and the Father in Me, confuse many minds, and not unnaturally, for the powers of human reason cannot provide them with any intelligible meaning.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“He had often heard such words as, I and the Father are One, and, All things that the Father hath are Mine, and, I in the Father and the Father in Me; and now he can confess that the name of God expresses the nature of Christ, without peril to the faith.” — editor's note: St. John x. 30, xvi. 15, xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“…and, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also; and, Believe Me, that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father: or else believe for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John x. 30; xiv. 7, 9, 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9–11.
Read the whole comment“Yet another example, I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me, and, The Father is greater than I. The One is in the Other: recognise, then, the divinity of God, the Begotten of God: the Father is greater than He: perceive, then, His acknowledgment of the Father’s authority.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 11; cf. x. 38.
Read the whole comment
Hippolytus of Rome
“And he adds, that this is what has been declared by the Saviour: “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment
Catena Aurea on John
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
A declaration so new startled Philip. Our Lord is seen to be man. He confesses Himself to be the Son of God, declares that, if He were known, the Father would be known, that, if He is seen, the Father is seen. The…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
For to that joy of beholding His face, nothing can be added. Philip understood this, and said, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. But he did not yet understand that he could in the same way have said,…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
But how is this, when our Lord said that they knew whither He was going, and the way, because they knew Him? The question is easily settled by supposing that some of them knew, and others not; among the latter, Philip.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
He reproves the ignorance of Philip in this respect. For whereas his actions had been strictly divine, such as walking on the water, commanding the winds, remitting sins, raising the dead, He complained that in His…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
When two persons are very like each, we say, If you have seen the one, you have seen the other. So here, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father; not that He is both the Father, and the Son, but that the Son is an…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
He does not mean the sight of the bodily eye: for His fleshly part, born of the Virgin, doth not avail towards contemplating the form and image of God in Him; but the Son of God being known with the understanding, it…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
But is he to be reproved, who, when he has seen the likeness, wishes to see the man of whom he is the likeness? No: our Lord rebuked the question, only with reference to the mind of the asker. Philip asked, as if the…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
For what excuse was there for ignorance of the Father, or what necessity to shew Him, when the Father was seen in the Son by His essential nature2, while by the identity of unity, the Begotten and the Begetter are…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
He wished him to live by faith, before he had sight, and therefore says, Believest thou not? Spiritual vision is the reward of faith, vouchsafed to minds purified by faith.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
But the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, not by a conjunction of two harmonizing essences3, nor by a nature grafted into a more capacious substance as in material bodies, in which it is impossible…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
The unchangeable God follows, so to speak, His own nature, by begetting unchangeable God. Nor does the perfect birth of unchangeable God from unchangeable God forsake His own nature. We understand then here the…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Or thus: Philip, because [he thought] he had seen the Son with his bodily eye, wished to see the Father in the same way; perhaps too remembering what the Prophet said, I saw the Lord, and therefore he says, Shew us…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
He then addresses all of them, not Philip only: The word that I speak unto you, I speak not of Myself. What is, I speak not of Myself, but, I that speak am not of Myself? He attributes what He does to Him, from whom…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
Wherein He neither desires Himself to be the Son, nor hides the existence1 of His Father’s power in Him. In that He speaks, it is Himself that speaks in His own person; in that He speaks not of Himself, He witnesseth…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Mark the abundant proof of the unity of substance. For He continues; But the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. As if He said, My Father and I act together, not differently from each other; agreeing with…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
For he that edifieth his neighbour by speaking, doth a good work. These two sentences are brought against us by different sects of heretics; the Arians saying that the Son is unequal to the Father, because He does…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
That the Father dwells in the Son, shews that He is not single, or solitary; that the Father works by the Son, shews that He is not different or alien. As He is not solitary who doth not speak from Himself, so…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Philip alone was reproved before.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
But if this does not suffice to shew ray consubstantiality, at least learn it from My works: Or else believe Me for the very works’ sake. Ye have seen My miracles, and all the proper signs of My divinity; works which…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Believe then for My works’ sake, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; for, were we separated, we could not be working together.
Read the whole comment
Cross-references · 20
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.12 and 2 other places.