"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

The invisible

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen!

who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

The firstborn

For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And further, when he brought the firstborn into the habitable world, he said, Let all the angels of God worship him.

Of every

for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.

General references

"He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.