Yohanes 1:18
Konteks1:18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, 1 himself God, who is in closest fellowship with 2 the Father, has made God 3 known. 4
Yohanes 14:9
Konteks14:9 Jesus replied, 5 “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known 6 me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Yohanes 15:24
Konteks15:24 If I had not performed 7 among them the miraculous deeds 8 that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. 9 But now they have seen the deeds 10 and have hated both me and my Father. 11
[1:18] 1 tc The textual problem μονογενὴς θεός (monogenh" qeo", “the only God”) versus ὁ μονογενὴς υἱός (Jo monogenh" Juio", “the only son”) is a notoriously difficult one. Only one letter would have differentiated the readings in the
[1:18] tn Or “The unique one.” For the meaning of μονογενής (monogenh") see the note on “one and only” in 1:14.
[1:18] 2 tn Grk “in the bosom of” (an idiom for closeness or nearness; cf. L&N 34.18; BDAG 556 s.v. κόλπος 1).
[1:18] 3 tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[1:18] 4 sn Has made God known. In this final verse of the prologue, the climactic and ultimate statement of the earthly career of the Logos, Jesus of Nazareth, is reached. The unique One (John 1:14), the One who has taken on human form and nature by becoming incarnate (became flesh, 1:14), who is himself fully God (the Word was God, 1:1c) and is to be identified with the ever-living One of the Old Testament revelation (Exod 3:14), who is in intimate relationship with the Father, this One and no other has fully revealed what God is like. As Jesus said to Philip in John 14:9, “The one who has seen me has seen the Father.”
[14:9] 5 tn Grk “Jesus said to him.”
[15:24] 7 tn Or “If I had not done.”
[15:24] 9 tn Grk “they would not have sin” (an idiom).
[15:24] 10 tn The words “the deeds” are supplied to clarify from context what was seen. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context.
[15:24] 11 tn Or “But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.” It is possible to understand both the “seeing” and the “hating” to refer to both Jesus and the Father, but this has the world “seeing” the Father, which seems alien to the Johannine Jesus. (Some point out John 14:9 as an example, but this is addressed to the disciples, not to the world.) It is more likely that the “seeing” refers to the miraculous deeds mentioned in the first half of the verse. Such an understanding of the first “both – and” construction is apparently supported by BDF §444.3.