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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 14:4-11
  by J.C. Ryle
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"And you know the way where I am going." Thomas said, "Lord, we don’t
know where you are going. How can we know the way?" Jesus replied, "I am
the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from
now on you do know him and have seen him."

Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content." Jesus
replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me,
Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father,
and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on
my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous
deeds. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but
if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds
themselves.

We should mark in these verses how much better Jesus speaks of believers
than they speak of themselves. He says to His disciples, "You know where
I go, and you know the way." And yet Thomas at once breaks in with the
remark, "We know neither the where nor the way." The apparent
contradiction demands explanation. It is more seeming than real.

Certainly, in one point of view, the knowledge of the disciples was very
small. They knew little before the crucifixion and resurrection compared
to what they might have known, and little compared to what they
afterwards knew after the day of Pentecost. About our Lord\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-john-john-144-11/
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