10 and they ^fsaw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of ^gsapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,¹ saying, “For ^mI have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

22 And Manoah said to his wife, ⁿ“We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”

Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord

1 In the year that ^sKing Uzziah died I ^tsaw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train¹ of his robe filled the temple.

5 And I said: “Woe is me! ^yFor I am lost; ^zfor I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ^aKing, the Lord of hosts!”

20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for ^sman shall not see me and live.”

23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall ^vnot be seen.”

18 ^lNo one has ever seen God; ^mGod the only Son, who¹ is at the Father’s side,^{2 n}he has made him known.

The Word Became Flesh

1 ^aIn the beginning was ^bthe Word, and ^cthe Word was with God, and ^dthe Word was God.

16 ^wwho alone has immortality, ^xwho dwells in ^yunapproachable light, ^zwhom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

1 ^oLet all who are under a yoke as bondservants¹ regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, ^pso that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

12 ⁱAre you greater than our father Jacob? ^jHe gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

20 ^rOur fathers worshiped on ^sthis mountain, but you say that ^tin Jerusalem is ^uthe place where people ought to worship.”