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Giovanni 8:19

Listen to Giovanni 8:19
19 Laonde essi gli dissero: Ove è il Padre tuo? Gesù rispose: Voi non conoscete nè me, nè il Padre mio; se voi conosceste me, conoscereste ancora il Padre mio.

Giovanni 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.

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Giovanni 8:19 In-Context

17 Or anche nella vostra legge è scritto, che la testimonianza di due uomini è verace.
18 Io son quel che testimonio di me stesso; e il Padre ancora, che mi ha mandato, testimonia di me.
19 Laonde essi gli dissero: Ove è il Padre tuo? Gesù rispose: Voi non conoscete nè me, nè il Padre mio; se voi conosceste me, conoscereste ancora il Padre mio.
20 Questi ragionamenti tenne Gesù in quella parte, dov’era la cassa delle offerte, insegnando nel tempio; e niuno lo pigliò, perciocchè la sua ora non era ancora venuta.
21 Gesù adunque disse loro di nuovo: Io me ne vo, e voi mi cercherete, e morrete nel vostro peccato; là ove io vo, voi non potete venire.
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