Jn 14:6-14
6Jesus said to [Thomas], “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” 8Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. 12Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.”
PHILIP: This apostle was from Bethsaida, the same place of origin of Peter and Andrew (Jn 1:44). The manner with which the Gospel of John speaks of him indicates that Philip could have been an acquaintance or a friend of the sons of Jonah (Peter and Andrew) and the sons of Zebedee (James and John) even before they came together as disciples of Jesus. They seemed to have shared the hope for the Messiah. And the close union of Philip and Andrew (Jn 6:5-9; 12:20-23) suggests that Philip may have owed to Andrew the first tidings about Jesus.
The Synoptic gospels tell us nothing of Philip, except that he is one of the Twelve. In the list, Philip’s name is uniformly at the head of the second group of four, in the same way that Peter’s name is at the head of the first group of four (Mk 5:18; Mt 10:3; Lk 6:14).
Philip’s name literally means “lover of horses.” Because horses are beasts of war, the name Philip is often associated with one who is warlike. In instances when Philip is mentioned in John (6:5-9; 14:8), he is portrayed as one who is aggressive with his remarks. He tells Jesus that to feed the hungry crowd means spending more than 200 days of wages. In the midst of Jesus’ solemn pronouncements during the Last Supper, he interrupts with the remark: “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
Beyond all these, anything about Philip is uncertain and apocryphal. According to tradition, he preached in Phrygia, and died at Hierapolis.