Matthew 11:27

All things have been delivered unto me of my Father.

The Lord speaks, in part, in anticipation. It was the divine purpose, in sending the Son, to deliver "all things," the gospel, salvation, judgment, the rule of heaven and earth, to him. When he had "finished" his work on the cross and risen from the dead, "all power in heaven and earth was given" to the Son. Who does not feel that such words as these could hot fall from the lips of. sinful man, but only from one whose nature and life lay far above all human imperfection?... Who would think of claiming the stately dignity of sole representative of the Unseen God, and who could speak of God as his Father in the same way as Jesus? And who would dare to link himself with the Eternal in. communion so awful, and. relation so absolute? It makes us feel, as we listen, that we are face to face with the incarnate divine.-- Geikie.

No one knoweth the Father but the Son.

He only is in the secret of the Divine counsels.

And he to whom the Son willeth to reveal him.

Christ is the revelation of God to man. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Those who "know" Christ by humble obedience and docility learn to know the Father also, for the "Father is in me and. in him."