Church; [or] of the coming again of the Lord in the Parousia of the last day, when all who believe in Him shall be received unto Himself", but he prefers to read them as referring to Jesus' constant spiritual presence in the midst of His disciples. The Way, the Truth, and the Life In the first of three individualised conversations in this chapter, Jesus speaks with Thomas. Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" Plummer notes that they were in Jerusalem, "the royal city of the conquering Messiah", so the disciples may have thought they were in the place where Jesus would be "to restore the kingdom to Israel". Verse 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." The phrase "The Way" is also found in and as a term to describe the early church. The pronoun is emphatic: it implies "I and no other". The Greek text also includes καὶ (kai, "and") before ἡ ἀλήθεια, (hē alētheia, "the truth"), a preference noted by Plummer and the Revised Standard Version. Verse 7 [Jesus said to Thomas:] "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him". The words translated as "know" or "known" in verse 7 are ἐγνώκειτέ (egnōkate) and γινώσκετε (ginōskete) in the first and third occurrences, coming from the verb , (ginóskó, to come to know, recognize, perceive) whereas the second occurrence translates the (ēdeite), coming from the (eidó: be aware, behold, consider, perceive), although the Textus Receptus has words derived from γινώσκω in all three instances. Ellicott explains that the words "are not identical in meaning. The former means, to know by observation, the latter to know by reflection. It is the difference between connaître and savoir [in French]; between kennen ("ken, k(e)now"), and wissen ("wit, wisdom") [in German]". The meaning may be expressed more exactly as, 'If ye had recognised Me, ye would have known My Father also'. Philip, who had said to Nathaniel in , "Come and see", takes over the dialogue from Thomas: Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us (John 14:8). He still wants to see a further revelation, thinking that Jesus still has to show them a