Who Is Jesus?
“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.’”
John 14:9 (ESV)
We all carry an image of Jesus in our heads: the one from childhood catechism, the one from a film, the one from a phrase heard in the family, the one we built up over conflicts or consolations. The problem is that these images can stay on the surface — and one day the real question returns: deep down, who is He?
Jesus does not answer by pointing to a book or a doctrine — He points to His own person. If you want to know who God is, it is Him you must look at. The invisible Father becomes visible in the Son. Which means that what you find in Jesus — His gentleness with the fragile, His anger against injustice, His cross — is what you find in God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 (ESV)
Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant.
Philippians 2:6-7 (ESV)
The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
Revelation 3:14 (ESV)