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Copyright: Andrew Shiva
Compare Matthew 23:37-39
At John 14:7-9, Jesus is speaking with his apostles:
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, 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; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
One of the ways in which the Son manifests the Father is in revealing his compassion: The Father is not the Unmoved Mover of Aristotle, nor the passionless (impassible) Deity of certain strands of Aristotle-driven classical Christian theology. And Jesus manifests him to us.
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