John 14:8

Shew us the Father and it sufficeth us.

Philip fails to comprehend that the Father was to be seen in Christ and when the Lord declares that henceforth they have seen the Father; he at once requests such. revelation. He perhaps expected such. manifestation as Moses saw on the holy mount and from whence he came with. face shining like the sun (Exodus 33:18). The disciples were not only confused but filled with wonder; almost stupefied with the immediate prospect of the death of the Lord, but still had some expectation of the manifestation, in some way, of the kingdom. Philip's request is for. vision of God, of which he may have thought that Christ spoke. He wanted to walk by sight, instead of by faith.