4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest ; and how can we know the way ?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life : no man Cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also : and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth
9 Jesus saith unto him. Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip ? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father ; and how sayest thou thenj Show us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me ? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwellethiu me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me : or else believe me for the very works'
We should mark in these verses hoio much better Je- sus speaks of believers than they speak of themselves. He says to His disciples, "Ye know whither I go, and ye know the way." And yet Thomas at once breaks in with the remark, " We know neither the whither nor the way." The apparent contradiction demands expla- nation It is more seeming than real.
Certainly, in one point of view, the knowledge of the disciples was very small. They knew little before