Jesus says when we see him we see the Father.
When I see Jesus, I can say, "I see the Father".
Believe what is written.
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
When Jesus was asked to show them the Father, Jesus explained that the Father was in Him and that to know Him was to know the Father, not because Jesus is the Father but because He is the image of His Father and to know Jesus intimately by and from the heart was to know the Father.
Not by seeing Jesus with the physical eyes, but by perceiving His character and being touched by His Spirit which was IN the Father and the Father being IN Him. (John ch 14)
This did not begin to happen until His baptism when the Fathers Spirit which is the Spirit of the Kingdom of Heaven came and filled Him. (This is why the Kingdom was near)
Previous to that it was the Fathers word which was forming Him into the man who they later beheld the Glory of after His baptism.
Luk 2:52 And Jesus
increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Luk 11:49 Therefore also
said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
The wisdom of God is the word of God.
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