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If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
John 14:7 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
  • KJV If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
  • NKJV “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
  • NASB If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”
  • NLT If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

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Quick answer

Jesus says that to know Him is to know the Father, whom they now know and have seen. It teaches that the Father is fully revealed in the Son.

Overview

Knowing Jesus truly means knowing the Father, for the Son perfectly reveals Him. Having seen Christ, the disciples have seen the Father in Him. The verse affirms the deep unity of Father and Son and that saving knowledge of God is found in beholding Jesus.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Col 1:15–17The 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 10:22All 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 17:8For 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 17:6I 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.
  • 1 Jn 2:13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
  • John 17:21that 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 17:26And 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.”
  • John 14:16–20And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
  • John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
  • John 17:23I 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.
  • John 14:9–10Jesus 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’?
  • 2 Cor 4:6For 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.
  • Col 2:2–3that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
  • John 1:18No 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 16:13–16However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
  • Matt 11:27All 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 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
  • Heb 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • John 6:46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
  • John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

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Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

How John 14:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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