John 14:7 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 14:4-11

Christ, having set the happiness of heaven before them as the end, here shows them himself as the way to it, and tells them that they were better acquainted both with the end they were to aim at and with the way they were to walk in than they thought they were: You know, that is, 1. ?You may know; it is none of the secret things which belong not to you, but one of the things revealed; you need not ascend into heaven, nor go down into the deep, for the word is nigh you (Rom. 10:6-8), level to... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 14:7-11

14:7-11 "If you had known me, you would have known my Father too. From now on you are beginning to know him, and you have seen him." Philip said to him: "Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough for us." Jesus said to him: "Have I been with you for so long, and you did not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say: 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? I am not the source of the words that I speak to... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 14:7-11

Jesus goes on to say something else. One thing no Jew would ever lose was the grip of sheer loneliness of God. The Jews were unswerving monotheists. The danger of the Christian faith is that we may set up Jesus as a kind of secondary God. But Jesus himself insists that the things he said and the things he did did not come from his own initiative or his own power or his own knowledge but from God. His words were God's voice speaking to men; His deeds were God's power flowing through him to men.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 14:7

If ye had known me ,.... Christ having made mention of his Father's house, and of himself, as the way thither, and the way of access to the Father, was willing to inform his disciples better concerning him before his departure from them, which he introduces, saying: "if ye had known me"; that is, more fully and perfectly; for that they knew Christ to be the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, and true Messiah, is certain, though they were not so thoroughly acquainted, as afterwards, with... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 14:7

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father - Because I and the Father are One, John 10:30 . Or, if ye had properly examined the intention and design of the law, ye would have been convinced that it referred to me; and that all that I have done and instituted was according to the design and intention of the Father, as expressed in that law. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 14:7

Verse 7 7.If you had known me. He confirms what we have just now said, that it is a foolish and pernicious curiosity, when men, not satisfied with him, attempt to go to God by indirect and crooked paths. (64) They admit that there is nothing better than the knowledge of God; but when he is near them, and speaks to them familiarly, they wander through their own speculations, and seek above the clouds him whom they do not deign to acknowledge as present. Christ, therefore, blames the disciples... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:5-7

(4) The question of Thomas , eliciting from Christ that he was going to the Father , and that his death was their " way " as well as his own way thither . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:5-7

Thomas's questioning. It turned upon the ability of Christ to bring the disciples to the end of the way. I. THOMAS 'S OBSCURITIES . " Lord , we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" 1. He imagined that the Messiah ' s reign was to be on earth . Where, then, could be the royal home to which the Messiah was about to depart, and into which he was to gather his saints? 2. The question illustrates the peculiar temper of a disciple who is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:6-7

Jesus saith to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had learned to know me, ye would have £ known (absolutely) my Father also: from henceforward ye know (by personal experience) him, and (or, perhaps, even) ye have seen him . The whole sentence must be taken together. The whither of Christ is obvious enough, and throws consequent illumination upon the way thither. "The Father's house" is the whither no one cometh unto... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 14:7

If ye had known me - By this Jesus does not intend to say that they were not truly his disciples, but that they had not a full and accurate knowledge of his character and designs. They still retained, to a large extent, the Jewish notions respecting a temporal Messiah, and did not fully understand that he was to die and be raised from the dead.Ye should have known my Father also - You would have known the counsels and designs of my Father respecting my death and resurrection. If you had been... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 14:4-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 14:7-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 14:7-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 14:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 14:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 14:7

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:5-7

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:5-7

The Pulpit Commentary - John 14:6-7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 14:7

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