secundum Marcum 8:19

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Dicebant ergo ei: Ubi est Pater tuus? Respondit Jesus: Neque me scitis, neque Patrem meum: si me sciretis, forsitan et Patrem meum sciretis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Venerunt autem ad illum mater et fratres ejus, et non poterant adire eum pr� turba.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Dicebant ergo ei: "Ubi est Pater tuus?". Respondit Iesus: "Neque me scitis neque Patrem meum; si me sciretis, forsitan et Patrem meum sciretis".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye neither: John 8:54, John 8:55, John 1:10, John 7:28, John 10:14, John 10:15, John 15:21, John 16:3, Jeremiah 22:16, Jeremiah 24:7, 1 Corinthians 15:34, Galatians 4:9, Colossians 1:10, 1 John 5:20

if: John 1:18, John 14:6-9, John 17:3, John 17:25, John 17:26, Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21, Luke 10:22, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6, Ephesians 1:17, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3, 2 John 1:9

Reciprocal: John 1:26 - whom John 6:46 - any John 14:7 - ye 1 Corinthians 2:8 - for 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - that know 1 John 2:13 - because 1 John 2:23 - denieth 1 John 4:6 - he that knoweth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said they unto him, where is thy Father?.... The Persic version adds, "show [him] unto us": produce this witness boasted of, let us see him; this they said in a sneering, taunting, and insulting manner; where is thy Father? what! he is in Galilee; fetch him from thence; it is Joseph the carpenter you mean; a goodly witness indeed!

Jesus answered, ye neither know me nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also; they did not know the divine original of Christ, that he was the Son of God, and that God was his Father; they greatly boasted of their knowledge of God, but they knew him not; their ignorance of Christ showed it: the knowledge of both go together, and which is life eternal; nor can any truly know the one, without the other: and where the one is known, the other will be also; Christ is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person: so that he that has seen the one, must know the other; and indeed, no one can know the Father, but he to whom the Son reveals him: this was a severe mortification to these men of knowledge.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Where is thy Father? - This question was asked, doubtless, in derision. Jesus had often given them to understand that by his Father he meant God, John 5:6; They professed to be ignorant of this, and probably looked round in contempt for his Father, that he might adduce him as a witness in the case.

If ye had known me ... - If you had listened to my instructions, and had received me as the Messiah, you would also, at the same time, have been acquainted with God. We may here observe,

1. The manner in which Jesus answered them. He gave no heed to their cavil; he was not irritated by their contempt; he preserved his dignity, and gave them an answer worthy of the Son of God.
2. We should meet the cavils and sneers of sinners in the same manner. We should not render railing for railing, but “in meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,” 2 Timothy 2:25.
3. The way to know God is to know Jesus Christ. “No man hath seen God at any time. The only-begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him,” John 1:18. No sinner can have just views of God but in Jesus Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 8:19. Ye neither know me, c.] Ye know neither the Messiah, nor the God that sent him.

If ye had known me — If ye had received my teaching, ye would have got such an acquaintance with the nature and attributes of God as ye never could have had, and never can have any other way. That is a true saying, No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son, who lay an the bosom of the Father. he hath DECLARED him. The nature and perfections of God never can be properly known, but in the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is worthy of remark that, in all this discourse, our blessed Lord ever speaks of the Father and himself as two distinct persons. Therefore, the Father is not the Son, nor the Son the Father, as some persons vainly imagine though it is plain enough that the completest unity and equality subsists between them.