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the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

(3) Phil. 2.6 – who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.

(4) Col. 1.15 – He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

(5) Heb. 1.3 – He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

3. Only Jesus of Nazareth has or ever can definitively make the Father known, John 1.18 – No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known .

a. Matt. 11.27 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

b. John 14.9 – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”

II. The Testimony of John the Baptist, John 1.19-34

A. Three questions by the priests and Levites from Jerusalem , and John’s three denials