{"id":15985,"date":"2025-12-07T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15985"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:26:45","slug":"john-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15985\/john-118\/","title":{"rendered":"John 1:18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

John 1:18 says, “No one has ever seen God; the unique Son who is next to the Father has made Him known.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In your translation*, is “God” (spelled with a lowercase ‘o’ and ‘d’) Jesus?\u00a0 Also is “Jehovah God” the Father or Jesus?\u00a0 I just want to make sure I understand that correctly first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My real question is who is the “Him” in John 1:18?\u00a0 The verse makes it sound like Jesus is revealing GOD.\u00a0 Trying to understand the context of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Ben.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Read John 1:18 like this:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“No one has ever seen God the Father; the unique Son who is next to the Father has made the Father known.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jehovah is the Father, not the Son.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for the question.\u00a0 Hope my answer clears things up for you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_translation.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John, John 1:18 says, “No one has ever seen God; the unique Son who is next to the Father has made Him known.” In your translation*, is “God” (spelled with a lowercase ‘o’ and ‘d’) Jesus?\u00a0 Also is “Jehovah God” the Father or Jesus?\u00a0 I just want to make sure I understand that correctly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}