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He who sees me sees him who sent me.
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A Clear Claim to Divinity
Commentators unanimously affirm that this verse is one of Jesus's clearest claims to divinity. To see Jesus is to see the Father because they are one in essence. As Albert Barnes notes, for any mere human to make this claim would be blasphemy. It reveals Jesus's own consciousness of His divine nature and His equality with God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Seeth me. This verse is a strong confirmation of his equality with God. In no other way can it be true that he who saw Jesus saw him that …
19th Century
Anglican
And he who sees me sees him who sent me.—The word means to see, in the sense of “behold, contemplate, gaze upon.” Better,…
Baptist
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am …
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Jesus equated belief in him with belief in God (cf. John 14:1). The Father and the Son are inseparable; though they are two personalitie…
16th Century
Protestant
And he who seeth me. The word see is here taken for knowledge; for, in order to give true and thorough tranquility to ou…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he that sees me, sees him that sent me . ] Not with bodily eyes, for there were many that saw Christ, who never …
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Our Lord publicly proclaimed that everyone who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent h…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Evangelist described the failure of those who did not believe at all. Here he explains the failure of those who believed in secret …
