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"No one knows..." shows that God the Father communicates the knowledge of Himself and everything else to the Son, and through Him to the rest of humanity. The question is, if the Holy Spirit is excluded from this relation between the Father and Son, however Theologians say this is not the case in the Godhead.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. In the Good News Translation of the Bible the text reads: No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. [ 8 ] The Jerusalem Bible suggests that this verse has "a Johannine flavour", observing that "awareness of Christ's divine sonship exists in the deepest stratum of the synoptic tradition as well as in [John] ."
The Father is said to be in unique relationship with his only begotten (monogenes) son, Jesus Christ, which implies an exclusive and intimate familiarity: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
[84] [86] In Matthew 11:27 Jesus claims divine knowledge, stating: "No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son", asserting the mutual knowledge he has with the Father. [31] [87] One of the most important of Jesus' teachings is his second coming in Matthew 24 and Luke 21.
[44] [45] An example of the unity of Son and Father is Matthew 11:27: "No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son", asserting the mutual knowledge of Father and Son. [46] The concept of fatherhood of God does appear in the Old Testament, but is not a major theme.
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[43] [e] They interpret the phrase "monarchy of the Father" differently from those who see it as not in conflict with a procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father through or from the Son. As the Father has given to the Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father (see examples given above of those who in this way uphold the ...