Juan 8:19

19 —¿Dónde está tu padre?—Si supieran quién soy yo, sabrían también quién es 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 En la ley de ustedes está escrito que el testimonio de dos personas es válido.

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

19 —¿Dónde está tu padre?—Si supieran quién soy yo, sabrían también quién es mi Padre.

20 Estas palabras las dijo Jesús en el lugar donde se depositaban las ofrendas, mientras enseñaba en el templo. Pero nadie le echó mano, porque aún no había llegado su tiempo.

21 De nuevo Jesús les dijo:—Yo me voy, y ustedes me buscarán, pero en su pecado morirán. Adonde yo voy, ustedes no pueden ir.