腓力的最後請求
約翰福音十四章1至12節
1你們心裡不要憂愁，你們信神，也當信我。
2在我父的家裡有許多住處；若是沒有，我就早已告訴你們了；我去原是為你們預備地方去。
3我若去為你們預備了地方，就必再來接你們到我那裡去；我在哪裡，叫你們也在那裡。
4我往哪裡去，你們知道；那條路，你們也知道（註：有古卷作“我往哪裡去，你們知道那條路”）。”
5多馬對他說：“主啊，我們不知道你往哪裡去，怎麼知道那條路呢？”
6耶穌說：“我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。
7你們若認識我，也就認識我的父。從今以後，你們認識他，並且已經看見他。”
8腓力對他說：“求主將父顯給我們看，我們就知足了。”
9耶穌對他說：“腓力，我與你們同在這樣長久，你還不認識我嗎？人看見了我，就是看見了父，你怎麼說‘將父顯給我們看’呢？
10我在父裡面，父在我裡面，你不信嗎？我對你們所說的話，不是憑著自己說的，乃是住在我裡面的父做他自己的事。
11你們當信我，我在父裡面，父在我裡面；即或不信，也當因我所做的事信我。
12我實實在在地告訴你們：我所做的事，信我的人也要做；並且要做比這更大的事，因為我往父那裡去。
信息分享
基督就像往常常做的一樣，談及祂的父。腓力對基督所講的真理仍然不甚理解，便脫口而出說：「主啊，我們經常聽你談論到父，可以讓我們見祂一面嗎？這樣，我們就能夠真正明白你所講的東西了！」
基督的回答似乎略微率直，但我們應該感謝腓力提出這個問題。基督的回應大大增進我們的信心和對父的認識。腓力究竟期望甚麼呢？他是否希望一瞥天堂的景象或是甚麼？
基督的回答，是有關父與子原為一體的其中一個最重要的宣言。凡看見子的人，就等於看見父。
換言之，我們的天父跟基督完全一樣，而基督跟天父也完全一樣。你已經看見基督的慈愛、奇妙和能力嗎？那麼，你記著，天父也是一樣的。這個觀念能大大幫助我們認識神。
我們不知道腓力在五旬節後去了哪裡。聖經沒有記述他行過任何神蹟，或傳講過任何信息。按照教會流傳的說法，他走過小亞細亞，在敘利亞傳福音之後，在希拉波立殉道。
不管在哪個地方，腓力都總是默默地忠心服侍基督。我們的教會若沒有像他那樣的弟兄姊妹，會變成甚麼樣呢？讓我們為他們默默地忠心事主感謝神。
PHILIP'S FINAL REQUEST
John 14: 1-12
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions;[a] if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.[b]
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
Message
As Christ so often did, he mentioned the Father. Philip was still puzzled and blurted out, “Lord, we heard you talk so much about the Father. Could we see Him? That would really help us understand what you've been saying!”
Christ's answer seems a little blunt, but we ought to be grateful for Philip's question. Christ's answer is very helpful to our faith and our knowledge of the Father. We wonder what Philip expected. Did he think they would be given a vision of heaven or what?
That answer is really one of the greatest statements regarding the unique oneness of the Father and the Son. “Anyone who has seen me, has seen the Father.”
In other words, we are dealing with a heavenly Father who is exactly like Christ and Christ is exactly like the Father. Have you realised how loving, wonderful, and powerful Christ is? Then remember the Father is the same. That helps us so much in our understanding of God.
We do not know where Philip went after Pentecost. There are no recorded miracles or messages by him. Tradition says he was martyred in Hierapolis after a ministry in Syria and through Asia Minor.
Wherever he served Christ, Philip would have done it in a quiet determined way. What would our churches be like without men and women like him? Let's thank God today for their quiet faithful service.