John 1:18 No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known].
Jesus came to reveal the truth about God; that He is full of grace, not judgement. Over 125 times Jesus refers to God as “Father” in the gospel of John. God’s people, the Jews, saw God as exacting, and angry, because of Man’s fallenness; but Jesus wanted God’s people to know God as a good Father, who is love, and desires to make fallen people whole. Jesus didn’t explain the truth about God by living as God himself. Even though Jesus was the eternal God, He lived on the earth as a Spirit-filled man. Man was created to reveal God’s likeness, and Jesus, as the second Adam, did just that. He manifested the “likeness of the Father” as a result of His intimacy with Him. The words “in the bosom of the Father,” is literally “into” the bosom of the Father. Jesus lived leaning into the breast (presence) of the Father, and the result was He grew in union with His Father at such a level that He, according to Hebrews 1:3, “the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature,…” Because Jesus “dwelt between the shoulders” of Father, He released the presence and nature of God.