and that is enough.” Jesus said to him, “What! I have been with you so long and you
still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the Father; how can you say, ‘Show
us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? All
that I say to you, I do not say of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own
work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least
believe it on the evidence of these works that I do. Truly, I say to you, the one who believes
in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do greater than these, for I am going
to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. Indeed, anything you ask, calling upon my name, I will do it.
Reflect
“Revealer of the Father.” Jesus is the visible revelation of the invisible God. In the Gospel
of John, Jesus is the Revealer of the Father. Today’s Gospel narrates Philip requesting
Jesus that the latter would show the Father to them. And they, accordingly, will be satisfied.
But Jesus explained that whoever has seen him has already seen the Father. Jesus is
always at the Father’s side and the only one who has seen the Father, and his role is to
reveal the Father to the world (cf. Jn. 1:18). We are all in search of God. Deep within our
hearts, we know that it is only God who can satisfy our deepest longing. However, we often
do not find him because our eyes are blinded by our own selfsecuring preoccupations. We
want to be filled in but we do not want to empty ourselves. We want to have a better world
but we do not want to change our lifestyle. We want to save the earth yet we remain highly
consumeristic. In other words, we want to find God but reject Jesus’ revelation about the
loving Father who loves the world so much and who sent his Son to save the world he loves.
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