Tractates on the Gospel of John

² Let us see, then, what answer the Lord made to this. “Where,” say they, “is your Father?” For we have heard you say, “I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me:” we see you alone, we do not see your Father with you; how do you say that you are not alone, but that you are with your Father? Else show us that your Father is with you. And the Lord answered them: Do ye know me, that I should show you the Father? This is indeed what follows; this is what He answered in His own words, the exposition of which we have already premised. For see what He said, “You neither know me nor my Father: if you knew me, you would perhaps know my Father also.” You say then, “Where is your Father?” As if already ye knew me; as if what you see were all that I am. Therefore because ye know not me, I do not show you my Father. You suppose me, in fact, to be a man; hence ye seek a man for my father, because “ye judge after the flesh.” But because, according to what you see, I am one thing, and another thing according to what you see not, and that I as hidden from you speak of my Father as hidden, it is requisite that you should first know me, and then ye know my Father also.