If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Philip said to him, "Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen 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? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it. (Jn 14: 7-14)
The demand made by Philip to see the father is a justifiable one. Jesus has been talking about the father so much and he has also said that he has come to reveal the father to the world and take the world to the father. Like Philip everyone wants to relate to God and be in union with the father. Everyone wants to have direct access to the father.
Jesus confirms to Philip that to have seen Jesus is to have seen the father. So the father is in Jesus. Jesus his speeches and his activities are the revelation of the father. These revelations are so perfect that in them the father is present. That is why Jesus is the father. (Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.)
Those who see the father in Jesus and believe that the father is in Jesus will do greater activities that in turn will reveal the father. God is in the world and he is present in the world and in the persons who believe in him. This reality has to become total and complete. The world has to possess God and reveal God.
