Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
8. Show us the Father. It appears to be very absurd that the Apostles should offer so many objections to the Lord; for why did he speak but to inform them on that point about which Philip puts the question? Yet there is not one of their faults that is here described that may not be charged on us as well as on them.
You know the way better than you think. Christ is willing to make the best of your weak knowledge, seeing good in you that you cannot yet see in yourselves. Thomas shows modesty in his ignorance, and Christ's word stirs him to seek further light rather than settle for confusion.
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Commenting on John 14:4-11
Philip saith to him, Lord,.... Another of his disciples addresses him in a reverend and becoming manner, as Thomas before had done, calling him Lord, and saying to him, "show us the Father, and it sufficeth us": he speaks in the name of them all, seems to own their ignorance of the Father, and expresses their desire of seeing him: shew us the Father; it...