Juan 8:19

19 Entonces le decían: ¿Dónde está tu Padre? Jesús respondió: No me conocéis a mí ni a mi Padre. Si me conocierais a mí, conoceríais también a mi Padre.

Juan 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.

Juan 8:19 In-Context

17 Aun en vuestra ley está escrito que el testimonio de dos hombres es verdadero.

18 Yo soy el que doy testimonio de mí mismo, y el Padre que me envió da testimonio de mí.

19 Entonces le decían: ¿Dónde está tu Padre? Jesús respondió: No me conocéis a mí ni a mi Padre. Si me conocierais a mí, conoceríais también a mi Padre.

20 Estas palabras las pronunció en el lugar del tesoro, cuando enseñaba en el templo; y nadie le prendió, porque todavía no había llegado su hora.

21 Entonces les dijo de nuevo: Yo me voy, y me buscaréis, y moriréis en vuestro pecado; adonde yo voy, vosotros no podéis ir.