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John
  
43Jesus therefore answered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God; he has seen the Father."


Jesus did not try to explain the miracle of his birth to those who refused him, they would have not believed. Nor are we able to know on our own the deity of the man Jesus, only by the enlightening of the Holy Spirit. Whoever comes to him in faith will see him and know his great truth.
Jesus forbade the crowds murmuring against divine revelations. The stubborn spirit hears nothing of God’s Kingdom. But the one who heeds who feels his need experiences God’s love.
God in this love draws people to Jesus the Savior, desiring their illumination and teaches them individually, as we read in Jeremiah 31:3. In the New Testament it is not man’s will or mind that brings about faith; rather it is the Holy Spirit who illumines us, and creates in us the divine life, for us to realize that the mighty God is truly our God and Father. He teaches His children, and preserves a direct relationship with them. He creates faith in our hearts through the attraction of the Spirit. Have you felt this attraction in your conscience? Are you open to the impulse of God’s love?
The Father’s Spirit leads us to Jesus and moves us towards him. He arouses our longing for him, until we go and meet Jesus and love him. He accepts us as we are, and does not cast us out, planting in us life eternal, so that we share in the power of the resurrection, to enter his Father’s glory.
There remains, however, a distinction between Jesus and the born again believer. No man has seen God, apart from the Son. He was with the Father from the beginning, and saw him. Father and Son were inseparable. Jesus shared in the heavenly peace and in all divine qualities.