Then said they unto him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered,
You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He tells them, it is of no avail for them to say they know the Father, if they do not know the Son.
He spoke in the temple magisterially, and now He was speaking to those who railed at and accused Him, for making Himself equal to the Father.