John Gill Commentary John 14:9

"Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?" — John 14:9 (ASV)

Jesus says to him, have I been so long time with you , &c.]

Conversing familiarly with you, instructing you by my ministry, and performing so many miraculous works among you, for so long a time; see (Hebrews 5:11Hebrews 5:12);

and yet have you not known me, Philip ?

Surely you cannot be so ignorant as this comes to; as you have seen me with your bodily eyes, as a man, you must know that I am God by the doctrines I have taught you, and the miracles I have wrought among you: and

he that has seen me ;

not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his understanding; he that has beheld the perfections of the Godhead in me:

has seen the Father ;

the perfections which are in him also; for the same that are in me are in him, and the same that are in him are in me: I am the very image of him, and am possessed of the same nature, attributes, and glory, that he is; so that he that sees the one, sees the other:

and how do you say then show us the Father ?

such a request is a needless one, and betrays great weakness and ignorance.