John 14:9 (WEB)
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Catechism · 2
The Son of God Became Man
“In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:9-10.
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“Jesus can say: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father", and the Father can say: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"” — Catechism footnote: Jn 14:9; Lk 9:35; cf. Mt 17:5; Mk 9:7, "my beloved Son".
Fathers and councils · 83
Augustine of Hippo
“…them so would be to falsify a different class of statements, such as, “I and my Father are one” (unum); and, “He that hath seen me hath seen my Father also;” and, “The Word was God,” for He was not made, inasmuch as “all things were made by Him;” and, “He thought it not robbery to be equal with God:” together with…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“He that seeth Me, seeth the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“In order to this “understanding,” other eyes were required by Him when He said, “He that seeth Me, seeth My Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“Then said He, “Have I been so long time with you, and hast thou not known Me, Philip: he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“Because, “he that hath known Me, hath known the Father also:” because no one hath reviled Christ without reviling God: because no one honoureth the Father, except he that honoureth the Son also.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…which the Lord gave concerning Himself, when He said: “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also;” and, “I am in the Father, and the Father is in me;” “that they may be one, even as we are one;” and, “Whatsoever the Father doeth, these same things doeth the Son likewise.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“It was in this discourse, over which John lingers long, that He said, “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“He that seeth me, seeth also the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him,” at a time when He was manifest before the eyes of men; unless because He was offering that flesh, which the Word was made in the fullness of time, to be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 21
Read the whole comment“He who hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“He that seeth Me, seeth the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“He immediately adds, “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“Thou art in God, because God contains thee; God is in thee, because thou art become the temple of God: but because thou art in God, and God is in thee, canst thou say, He that seeth me seeth God; as the Only-begotten said, “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also;” and “I and the Father are one”?” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 9.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.43Book VII
“…and not only so, but also in the sense of the words of Him “who is the image of the invisible God;” “He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father who sent Me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment “For He by whom the Son Himself is understood, understands, as a consequence, the Father also, according to His own words: “He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.4Book II
“Whereas, on the contrary, God, the Father of Christ, is said to be seen, because “he who sees the Son,” he says, “sees also the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…not being deficient in the Father,—and Who says also that the Son should be honoured as the Father is honoured, and “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,” and “no man knoweth the Father save the Son,” in all which passages there is no hint given to those who receive these declarations as genuine, of any…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“…unity, inasmuch as the Lord hath taught us this by His own words, when He saith, “I and the Father are one,” and “he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“For if “he that hath seen the Son seeth the Father” then the Father begat another self, not passing out of Himself, and at the same time appearing in His fulness in Him: so that from these considerations that which seemed to have been uttered against godliness is demonstrated to be a support of sound doctrine.” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“…the Father’s glory, (as the word of the Gospel declares, which saith, “Him hath God the Father sealed,”—whence also “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,”) then “the image of goodness” and “the brightness of glory,” and all other similar titles, testify that the essence of the Son is not out of harmony with the…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“…change, but My very self, Who am in the Father—will have seen that Father Himself in Whom I am, because the very same character of Godhead is beheld in both.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“…employed concerning it,—not to speak of those more exalted words, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,” and, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,” and, “None hath seen the Son, save the Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“Why no one, I imagine, can be so densely stupid as to be ignorant that God the Only-begotten, Who is in the Father, and Who seeth the Father in Himself, is in no need of any name or title to make Him known, nor is the mystery of the Holy Spirit, Who searcheth out the deep…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; and henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 7, 9, 10.
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Tertullian
“For as in the Old Testament Scriptures they lay hold of nothing else than, “I am God, and beside me there is no God;” so in the Gospel they simply keep in view the Lord’s answer to Philip, “I and my Father are one;” and, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“Then the Lord answered him: “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?”” — editor's note: Ver. 9.
Read the whole comment“For God the Father none ever saw, and lived.” — editor's note: Comp. Ex. xxxiii. 20; John i. 18; xiv. 9; Col. i. 15; Heb. i. 3.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For this too the Lord has said, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…Son shall reveal Him,’ and if on Philip’s asking, ‘Shew us the Father,’ He said not, ‘Behold the creation,’ but, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ reasonably doth Paul,—while accusing the Greeks of contemplating the harmony and order of the creation without reflecting on the Framing Word within it (for…” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“These attributes must be in the Image, to make it true that he ‘that hath seen’ the Son ‘hath seen the Father.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…Image, ‘I am in the Father, and the Father in Me;’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father;’ and, ‘The Father that abideth in Me, He doeth the works;’ for what we behold in that Image are the Father’s works.” — editor's note: John xiv. 10, 9.
Read the whole comment“…and is known from the Father’s works which He Himself worketh, to be ‘in the Father and the Father in Him,’ and ‘He that hath seen Him hath seen the Father,’ because the Son’s Essence is proper to the Father, and He in all points like Him.” — editor's note: Vid. John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“…the Father in Me,’ and ‘I and the Father are one,’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and ‘I am the Light of the world,’ and, ‘I am the Truth;’ not setting down in every case the reason, nor the wherefore, lest He should seem second to those things for which He was made.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6, 9, 10; x. 30; viii. 12
Read the whole comment“…Father, as the Lord Himself has said, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and as John writes, ‘He who acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 9; 1 John ii. 23. and so Cyril in Joan. p. 864. vid. Wetstein in loc.
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“Moreover, He has added this again, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father;’ and there is one and the same sense in these three passages.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 9.
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“And This it was who said, ‘He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,’ and, ‘I in the Father and the Father in Me,’ and, ‘I and the Father are one;’ for thus God is One, and one the faith in the Father and Son; for, though the Word be God, the Lord our God is one Lord; for the Son is proper to that One,…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10; x. 30.
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.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” and if they choose to maintain that their dogma is ratified by this passage, as if He owned Himself to be the Father, let them know that it is decidedly against them, and that they are confuted by this very word.” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
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John Damascene
“Also of those that refer to the period before the incarnation there are six modes: for some of them declare the union of nature and the identity in essence with the Father, as this, I and My Father are one: also this, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father: and this, Who being in the form of God, and so forth.” — editor's note: Ibid. xiv. 9.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He who hath seen the Son, hath seen the Father: for in all things the Son is like to Him who begat Him; begotten Life of Life and Light of Light, Power of Power, God of God; and the characteristics of the…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For if the soul of the Son and the Son Himself are one in the same sense in which the Father and the Son are one, then the Father and the Soul will be one and the soul of the Son shall one day say ‘He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father;’ but this is not so; God forbid.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“When you hear the Lord saying “I and my Father are one,” and “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” do you say that this refers to the flesh or to the Godhead?” — editor's note: John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“When, therefore, Philip, desirous of seeing the Father, said to Him, ‘Lord, show us the Father,’ the Lord with abundant plainness said to him, ‘He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,’ as though the Father were beheld in the spotless and living mirror of His image.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9
Read the whole comment“And the Lord Himself distinctly teaches us, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9
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Ambrose of Milan
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9–10.
Read the whole comment“In that Image I perceive the Father, as the Lord Jesus Himself has said: “He that seeth Me seeth the Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“For though they said different things, neither was in error, for both the Father is seen in the Son, Who said, “He that seeth Me seeth the Father also,” and the Son is seen in the Spirit; for as “no man says Lord Jesus, except in the Holy Spirit,” so Christ is seen not by the eye of flesh, but by the grace of…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9.
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Basil the Great
“It is then to His living image, to Him Who has said “I and my Father are one,” “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” that God says “Let us make man in our image.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“Since then, as says the Lord in the Gospels, he that hath seen the Son sees the Father also; on this account he says that the Only-begotten is the express image of His Father’s person.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…to the Lord Himself, distinctly setting forth the equal dignity of His glory with the Father, in His words, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father;” and again, “When the Son cometh in the glory of his Father;” that they “should honour the Son even as they honour the Father;” and, “We beheld his glory, the…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment““He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; not the express image, nor yet the form, for the divine nature does not admit of combination; but the goodness of the will, which, being concurrent with the essence, is beheld as like and equal, or rather the same, in the Father as in the Son.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
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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“It would have behooved, if He had been inferior, to refute this opinion with much vehemence, and not at all to have said, “I am in the Father and the Father in me” ( c. x. 30 ), or that, “We are One,” or that, “He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.” ( c. xiv. 9.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“John xiv. 8, 9” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…The Father is greater than I, and I and the Father are One, or between None is good save One, even God, and He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also, or a difference so wide as that between Father, all things that are Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and That they may know Thee, the only true God, or…” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“It is no mere adoption, for He is the true Son of God and cries, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“When he hears the words, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also, he jumps to the blasphemous conclusion of an inseparable and indistinguishable identity of nature in Father and Son, because he fails to see that the revelation of the birth is the mode in which Their unity of nature is manifested to us.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9.
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“We have thus, it seems to me, more than answered the irreverence of those who refer to a unity or agreement of will such words of the Lord as, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father, or, The Father is in Me and I in the Father, or, I and the Father are One, or, All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9.
Read the whole comment“Take, for instance, the words, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also, and, The words that I say, I speak not from Myself.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For, it says, he that hath mental perception of the Son (for this is the meaning of Hath Seen) hath also perceived the Father; and the Son is a concise demonstration and easy setting forth of the Father’s Nature.” — editor's note: John xiv. 9.
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Leo the Great
“…His disciples, as was read in the Gospel lection, “if ye loved Me, ye would assuredly rejoice, because I go to the Father, because the Father is greater than I;” but those ears, which have often heard the words, “I and the Father are One,” and “He that sees Me, sees the Father also,” accept the saying without…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 28; x. 30; xiv. 9. In the English Church, the Gospel for Whitsunday is still the same as it was in Leo’s time at Rome.
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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…
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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,…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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