John 14:8

“Philip saith to him, Lord, etc.] Another of his disciples addresses him in a reverend and becoming manner, as Thomas before had done, calling him Lord, and saying to him, “show us the Father, and it sufficeth us”: he speaks in the name of them all, seems to own their ignorance of the Father, and expresses their desire of seeing him: shew us the Father; it was a corporeal sight of him he asked for; such a sight of the glory of God as Moses desired, and the elders of Israel had at Mount Sinai; and signifies, that if this could be obtained, it would give them full satisfaction: and it sufficeth us; we shall be no more uneasy at thy departure from us; we shall have no doubt about thy Father’s…”

“The substance of this passage is that the Son is the ordained and perfect manifestation of the Father, that His own word for this ought to His disciples to be enough; that if any doubts remained His works ought to remove them (see on Joh 10:37); but yet that these works of His were designed merely to aid weak faith, and would be repeated, nay exceeded, by His disciples, in virtue of the power He would confer on them after His departure. His miracles the apostles wrought, though wholly in His name and by His power, and the "greater" works--not in degree but in kind--were the conversion of thousands in a day, by His Spirit accompanying them.”

“Lord, show us the Father - Philip here referred to some outward and visible manifestation of God. God had manifested himself in various ways to the prophets and saints of old, and Philip affirmed that if some such manifestation should be made to them they would be satisfied. It was right to desire evidence that Jesus was the Messiah, but such evidence “had been” afforded abundantly in the miracles and teaching of Jesus, and that “should” have sufficed them. return to 'Top of Page'”

“14:8 Philip did not yet understand that in Jesus he was seeing the full embodiment of God (14:9).”

“Philip: Joh 1:43-46, Joh 6:5-7, Joh 12:21, Joh 12:22 show: Joh 16:25; Exo 33:18-23, Exo 34:5-7; Job 33:26; Psa 17:15, Psa 63:2; Mat 5:8; Rev 22:3-5 John 14:9”