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be made perfect in one: and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me'. John 17:21-23) 'He that knoweth not the Son knoweth not the Father which hath sent him'. (John 5:23) 'He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. ' John 5:24) 'One God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and in you all'. (Ephesians 4:6) The distinction between God and Jesus was well understood among the disciples and the early Christians, as would be appreciated from the following: 'For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ, Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh'. (Phil. 3:3) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things, and we by him'. (1 Cor. 8:6) Jesus himself brought out the distinction clearly in attributing divinity to God alone, Who was also his God, as for instance: 'Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I 21