John 14:9 Commentary and Bible Study

So the response of Christ, verse nine – ‘Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?’ Have you not reflected, have you not drawn the obvious conclusion? Have you not thought about it? Have you not marvelled and wondered and melted at the sense of privilege that you are a disciple of the second person of the Godhead? ‘He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?’Oh, if Christ had been only a man and a fallible man, how grieved he would have felt at their slowness to understand. But of course, he is God, he is perfect. And so Philip receives this gentle patience, amazing patience, ‘How sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?’ So much so, that ‘the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself’ because both the Father and I think exactly the same. ‘But the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.’ They are equal, they are divine. They are different, and yet they are one God. Philip, you’ve had your vision. You have had it for three years; you’ve had it practically every day; you’ve seen the Father in me if you would only think and reflect. The Lord says to Philip, you have had a daily vision of the Father and you didn’t appreciate what you were seeing.