The True Light: Knowing the Father Through His Son (John 1:9-13)

                    The True Light: Knowing the Father Through His Son (John 1:9-13) 

John 1:9-13 presents a powerful message about the true light that shines into the world. While many read this passage as a reference to Jesus being the light, a biblical Unitarian perspective recognizes that the ultimate source of light is the Father Himself. Throughout Scripture, God is described as light (1 John 1:5), the one who gives understanding and life to all. Jesus, as the Messiah and Son of God, is the one who reveals the Father, making Him known to those who receive him. This passage highlights the tragic reality that, though the light was in the world, many failed to recognize it. Yet, for those who did receive Jesus—acknowledging him as the one sent by the Father—they were given the right to become children of God. This was not by human lineage or effort but by God's own will. In these verses, we see the Father's desire to bring people into His family, using His Son as the means through which people come to know and embrace Him. As we explore these verses, we will consider how the true light—the Father—was made known through Jesus, and how receiving Jesus means entering into a relationship with God as His children.


John 1:10 English Standard Version 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not KNOW him.


 John 17:25 English Standard Version 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not KNOW you, I KNOW you, and these KNOW that you have sent me.

 

John 8:55 English Standard Version 55 But you have not KNOWN him. I KNOW him. If I were to say that I do not KNOW him, I would be a liar like you, but I do KNOW him and I keep his word.

 

John 7:28 English Standard Version 28 So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You KNOW me, and you KNOW where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not KNOW.

 

John 16:3 English Standard Version 3 And they will do these things because they have not KNOWN the Father, nor me.

 

John 14:7-9 English Standard Version 7 If you had KNOWN me, you would have KNOWN my Father also. From now on you do KNOW him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not KNOW me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

 

John 8:19 English Standard Version 19 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You KNOW neither me nor my Father. If you KNEW me, you would KNOW my Father also.”

 

1 John 3:1 English Standard Version 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not KNOW us is that it did not KNOW him

 

1 Corinthians 1:21 English Standard Version 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not KNOW God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

 

Jeremiah 9:3, 6 English Standard Version 3 They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not KNOW me, declares the Lord.6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to KNOW me, declares the Lord.

 

Hosea 4:1,6 English Standard Version l 4 Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no KNOWLEDGE of God in the land…….6 My people are destroyed for lack of KNOWLEDGE; because you have rejected KNOWLEDGE, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

 

Isaiah 1:3 English Standard Version 3 The ox KNOWS its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not KNOW, my people do not understand.

 

John 1:18 English Standard Version 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him KNOWN

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