约翰福音 14:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

腓力說：“主啊，請把父顯示給我們，我們就滿足了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
腓 力 对 他 说 ： 求 主 将 父 显 给 我 们 看 ， 我 们 就 知 足 了 。

Contextual Overview

⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going." ⁵ Thomas said to Jesus, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. So how can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus answered, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me. ⁷ If you really knew me, you would know my Father, too. But now you do know him, and you have seen him." ⁸ Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father. That is all we need." ⁹ Jesus answered, "I have been with you a long time now. Do you still not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. So why do you say, ‘Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you don't come from me, but the Father lives in me and does his own work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or believe because of the miracles I have done.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Philip: John 1:43-46, John 6:5-7, John 12:21, John 12:22

show: John 16:25, Exodus 33:18-23, Exodus 34:5-7, Job 33:26, Psalms 17:15, Psalms 63:2, Matthew 5:8, Revelation 22:3-5

Reciprocal: Matthew 17:4 - it is Mark 3:18 - Philip Mark 9:5 - it is Luke 6:14 - Philip Luke 9:33 - it is John 1:44 - Philip Acts 1:13 - Philip 2 Peter 1:17 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:2
All these kings went to war against several other kings: Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)

Genesis 14:3
These kings who were attacked united their armies in the Valley of Siddim (now the Dead Sea).

Genesis 14:10
There were many tar pits in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into the tar pits, but the others ran away to the mountains.

Genesis 19:20
Look, that little town over there is not too far away. Let me run there. It's really just a little town, and I'll be safe there."

Genesis 19:22
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 was a corporeal sight of him he asked for; such a sight of the glory of God as Moses desired, and the elders of Israel had at Mount Sinai; and signifies, that if this could be obtained, it would give them full satisfaction:

and it sufficeth us; we shall be no more uneasy at thy departure from us; we shall have no doubt about thy Father's house, and the many mansions in it; or of thyself, as the way unto it, and of our everlasting abode with thee in it; we shall sit down easy and contented, and trouble time no more with questions about this matter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, show us the Father - Philip here referred to some outward and visible manifestation of God. God had manifested himself in various ways to the prophets and saints of old, and Philip affirmed that if some such manifestation should be made to them they would be satisfied. It was right to desire evidence that Jesus was the Messiah, but such evidence “had been” afforded abundantly in the miracles and teaching of Jesus, and that “should” have sufficed them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 14:8. Show us the Father — As if he had said, We have seen and adored thee, and our happiness will be complete if thou show us the Father. The demand of Philip was similar to that made by Moses, Exodus 33:18. He wished to see the glory of God. In Peter, James, or John, this would have been inexcusable; but Philip had not seen the transfiguration on the mount. The Jewish history is full of the manifestations which God made of himself, and especially when he gave the law. As Christ was introducing a new law, Philip wished to have an additional manifestation of God.