Matthew 11:27 is the 27th verse in the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is: Πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου· καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπιγινώσκει τὸν υἱόν, εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ· οὐδὲ τὸν πατέρα τις ἐπιγινώσκει, εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱός, καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν βούληται ὁ υἱὸς ἀποκαλύψαι. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. The New International Version translates the passage as: "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Analysis "All Things are delivered unto me," appears to imply that "through the Son alone the father, works, teaches, and bestows His gifts." "No one knows..." shows that God the Father communicates the knowledge of Himself and everything else to the Son, and through Him to the rest of humanity. The question is, if the Holy Spirit is excluded from this relation between the Father and Son, however Theologians say this is not the case in the Godhead. Marcion, rejected the Old Testament based on this verse since he claimed that no one could have known God before Christ came. Commentary from the Church Fathers Chrysostom: " Because He had said, I confess unto thee, Father, because thou hast hid these things from the wise, that you should not suppose that He thus thanks the Father as though He Himself was excluded from this power, He adds, All things are committed to me by my Father. Hearing the words are committed, do not admit suspicion of any thing human, for He uses this word that you may not think there be two gods unbegotten. For at the time that He was begotten He was Lord of all." Jerome: " For if we conceive of this thing according to our weakness, when he who receives begins to have, he who gives begins to be without. Or when He says, All things are committed to him, He may mean, not the heaven and earth and the elements,