In John's Gospel what is the relationship between the father and Jesus compared to?

This is most evident by the way that John continues to build a case for Christ’s deity from the very first verse to the very end of this book. John begins his gospel by writing, “In the beginning the Word was God and the Word was with God” (John 1:1). This statement asserts that Christ is one with God and has been for all of eternity. With this kind of beginning, the reader is made keenly aware of John’s overarching purpose for writing his book. He longs for the non-believer, especially the Jew, to come to the understanding and faith to believe that Jesus was God Himself, sent as the Messiah to dwell among His people (John 1:14). If the reader of John has not fully grasped John’s thesis, they cannot miss it when he stated it in chapter 20:31, “But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”Bible New Testament St. John

The Gospel speaks of “the son (of God)” twenty-nine times and refers to God as “Father” over one hundred times.[i] This alone is a clear example of John’s purpose to help people come to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The way this is emphasized in the Gospel of John makes this gospel unique among the other synoptic Gospels. Not only has the Gospel of John captured Christ’s earthly ministry, but it strives to show Him as the preexistent son of God and highlight his divinity while looking forward to His future reign as God and King.

D. a conflict between her competing identities.