John 8:19

19 They asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, " You don't know me and you don't know my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father."

John 8:19 Meaning and Commentary

John 8:19

Then said they unto him, where is thy Father?
&c.] The Persic version adds, "show [him] unto us": produce this witness boasted of, let us see him; this they said in a sneering, taunting, and insulting manner; where is thy Father? what! he is in Galilee; fetch him from thence; it is Joseph the carpenter you mean; a goodly witness indeed!

Jesus answered, ye neither know me nor my Father; if ye had known
me, ye should have known my Father also;
they did not know the divine original of Christ, that he was the Son of God, and that God was his Father; they greatly boasted of their knowledge of God, but they knew him not; their ignorance of Christ showed it: the knowledge of both go together, and which is life eternal; nor can any truly know the one, without the other: and where the one is known, the other will be also; Christ is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person: so that he that has seen the one, must know the other; and indeed, no one can know the Father, but he to whom the Son reveals him: this was a severe mortification to these men of knowledge.

John 8:19 In-Context

17 In your Law it is written that the witness of two people is true.

18 I am one witness concerning myself, and the Father who sent me is the other."

19 They asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You don't know me and you don't know my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father."

20 He spoke these words while he was teaching in the temple area known as the treasury. No one arrested him, because his time hadn't yet come.

21 Jesus continued, "I'm going away. You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I'm going, you can't come."