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If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
John 14:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
  • BSB If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do 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 1:15–17who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
  • John 8:19They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
  • Luke 10:22Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
  • John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
  • 1 Jn 2:13I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
  • John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
  • John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
  • John 14:16–20I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, —
  • John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
  • John 14:9–10Jesus 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?’
  • 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Col 2:2–3that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
  • John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
  • John 16:13–16However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
  • Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
  • John 15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
  • Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • John 6:46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
  • John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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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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