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19. ποῦ ἐστίν. They do not ask ‘who’ but ‘where;’ they know well enough by this time the meaning of Christ’s frequent reference to ‘Him that sent Me:’ Joh 5:23-24; Joh 5:30; Joh 5:37-38, Joh 6:38-40; Joh 6:44, Joh 7:16; Joh 7:18; Joh 7:28; Joh 7:33. They ask, therefore, in mockery, what Philip (Joh 14:8) asks with earnest longing, ‘Shew us the Father: we see one of Thy two witnesses; shew us the other. Any liar can appeal to God.’
οὔτε ἐμὲ οἴδ. Ye know neither Me … If ye knew Me, ye would know, as in Joh 8:42 : here and in Joh 8:46 the A.V. translates imperfects as aorists. It is in the Son that the Father reveals Himself: Joh 14:9, Joh 16:3. By learning to know the Son the disciples came to know the Father: the Jews could not know the Father because they refused to know the Son.