<p>8:19 <i>They replied to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also</i>- There seems to be a verbal connection at least between the Jews' mocking question of Christ &quot;Where is your father?&quot; (Jn. 8:19) and Saul's &quot;whose son is this youth?&quot; (1 Sam. 17:55); David was indeed a type of the Lord.&nbsp;On one hand they did know Him and His Father: &quot;You both know me, and know from where I am, and that I have not come of myself&quot; (7:28). But it is a theme of John's Gospel that one can see and not see, hear and not hear, know and not know. The appeal is to actualize that knowledge, to follow the likes of Nicodemus in allowing our encounter with the Lord to take over our lives, so that we know Him not theoretically, as propositions, but in the Hebrew sense of 'knowing', i.e. being in an ongoing relationship with. We can note here that knowing the Father is predicated upon knowing the Son. It is encounter, experience and relationship with Him which leads us to know the Father; He is the way to the Father. Archaeology, creationism, science, arguments from nature and logic... will not provide lasting relationship with the Father. All is predicated upon the Son.</p>