I DO NOT SPEAK ON MY OWN AUTHORITY
8Philip said to
him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
9Jesus said to
him,
“Have I been
with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen
me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say
to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does
his works.
11Believe me
that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of
the works themselves.
JOHN 14:8-11
COMMENTARY
At the Last
Supper with his disciples, after instituting the sacrament of the Washing of
The Feet, and after warning them that He will be betrayed by one of them, and
that He will be preparing a place for them in GOD’s Heavenly Home, next to Himself
(John 13:21; 14:2-3), Phillip, one of the Twelve, asked JESUS to show them the
Father, as if that would be a better guarantee to their faith.
Jesus showed
surprised at Phillip’s question, not because He ignored Phillip’s little
understanding, but to show him how disappointing was to see how little he had
learned from three years with Him.
He told him
straight, that Him and The Father GOD, were one in purpose and character. That
to see Him, was equivalent to see GOD YHWH, because He lived in GOD’s presence
all the time. Indeed, JESUS was the visible representation of the invisible Father
(Colossians 1:15).
Finally, Lord
JESUS CHRIST said, that it was GOD who acted in Him. That He did not do anything
on his own power, but that it was GOD who acted through Him (John 14:10), and that
if it was hard to believe this, at least they should believe because of the
miracles He did, which they could not come from no other than GOD HIMSELF.
JESUS referred
to the purpose of this miracles, like exorcisms that destroyed Satan’s power,
and to the resurrections He performed, because ONLY GOD THE FATHER, can give
life.
This showed the
world, in the person of Phillip, that Lord JESUS was truly the ‘Firstborn of
all Creation’, and that He was the representative of GOD YHWH before the whole
universe, as GOD HIMSELF confirmed it before the crowds, a day before (John
12:18).
JESUS is the WAY,
THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, because He confers with the highest fidelity, the WAY
back to GOD, the TRUTH that comes from the Father, and the EVERLASTING LIFE,
GOD confers to all his faithful,
Omar Flores.
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