John 5:20 - Exposition

For —the Lord introduces a reason, states a fact, which is calculated to make this vision of the Father's activity apprehensible to his hearers— the Father loveth ( φιλεῖ expresses strong personal, natural affection, amat rather than the ἀγαπα or diligit of many other passages.

See notes, John 21:15 and John 3:35 ) £ the Son, and he loveth him to such an extent that he showeth him , making it therefore possible for him "to see"— all things that himself doeth. The Son has been from eternity and is now, notwithstanding his incarnate lowliness, the continuous Spectator of all the Father's doing in all hearts and lives, in all places of his dominion. "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee." So stupendous a claim was never exceeded or transcended. "All things that himself doeth," shown and visible to One walking this world. The mind either rebels against or succumbs before such sublime and all-embracing knowledge. No neutrality is possible. If these were his words, then there is justification for the generalizations of the prologue.