No one has ever seen God. Except 74 ancient Hebrews.

Exodus 24.9-11 • John 1.18 • 1 John 4.12-13. Most of the reason we Christians are pretty sure John bar Zavdi wrote both the gospel with his name on it, and the letters with his name on them, is ’cause the same ideas and themes (and wording, and vocabulary) come up in them. Including today’s bible difficulty, the idea nobody’s ever seen God. John wrote it in both his gospel and his first letter. John 1.18 KWL Nobody’s ever seen God. The only Son, God who’s in the Father’s womb, he explains God. 1 John 4.12-13 KWL 12 No one’s ever seen God, yet when we love one another, God’s with us. His love’s been expressed in us, 13 so this is how we get to know we’re with him and he’s with us. He’s given us his Spirit. The reason it’s a difficulty? Because people have seen God. In Exodus 24, we have this interesting little story: Exodus 24.9-11 KWL 9 Moses, Aaron, Nadáv, Avíhu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, went up 10 and saw Israel’s God: Under his feet was somethin