John Chapter 6 verse 46 Holy Bible
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he that is from God, he hath seen the Father.
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Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
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not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father.
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Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
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Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
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not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.
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John 6 : 46 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 46. - Not that any one hath seen the Father, save he who is from God, he hath seen the Father. "Hearing" and "learning" do not amount to the beatific vision. "No one [as John said, John 1:18] hath seen God at any time, the only begotten [Son] who is in the bosom of the Father [πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, John 1:1; εἰς τὸν κόλπον, John 1:18], he hath declared him" (cf. Matthew 11:27). The full revelation of the Father is alone possible to one who is (παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ) "forth from God," yet evermore standing in close association with God. Cyril and Erasmus here suggest the fact that Christ distinguishes himself from Moses, and some suggest that Christ protests against the supposition which would make the spiritual "inner Christ" of modern speculation of more value than the historical personality. But παρὰ in association with ω}ν indicates more than mission from God, and obviously stands in indissoluble relation with the teaching of the prologue, viz. the eternal pre-existence of the personal Logos - the identity of the Person who was made flesh with the Christ of this discourse. These words bring our Lord's teaching back to a full justification or reassertion of the statement that he had come down from heaven.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(46) But this hearing and learning of the Father was the preparation for, not the substitute for, the fuller revelation in the person of the Son. Once again He declares that "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath been the interpreter." (See Note on John 1:18; and comp. John 3:13; John 8:38.) Every man, in proportion as he had been taught of God, would feel how little he knew of God, and there would be in him the yearning desire and the trained faculty to see Him who is of God.
