No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father.

It is not up in the sky. You do not have to ask, 'Who will go up and bring it down for us, so that we can hear it and obey it?'

Have any ever mastered heavenly knowledge? Have any ever caught the wind in their hands? Or wrapped up water in a piece of cloth? Or fixed the boundaries of the earth? Who are they, if you know? Who are their children?

For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said, 'The Lord said to my Lord: Sit here at my right side

But what the scripture says about being put right with God through faith is this: "You are not to ask yourself, Who will go up into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down).

Now, what does "he went up" mean? It means that first he came down to the lowest depths of the earth.

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."

Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?

Jesus said to them, "If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me.

Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.

I did come from the Father, and I came into the world; and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

We know now that you know everything; you do not need to have someone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God."

Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."

After the Lord Jesus had talked with them, he was taken up to heaven and sat at the right side of God.

The disciples went and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and proved that their preaching was true by the miracles that were performed.]

So keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock which the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he made his own through the blood of his Son.

The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.

So the one who came down is the same one who went up, above and beyond the heavens, to fill the whole universe with his presence.