know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus answers with a statement that has become one of the central texts of Christology: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.” This revelation of the Lord, however, elicits a new question now—or rather, a request, which this time is made by Philip: “Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.” Again Jesus replies with a revelatory word, which leads from another perspective into the very depths