maybe you should ask yourself that question. this is why those with hidden agenda and bias make false narratives to support what they cannot prove the above post you have does just that why? because the context is not that. that is clear if you would have taken verses before 12 and after 12.
Read :
John 14:8-14
8 Philip said, “
Lord, show us the Father and
that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “
Don’t you know me, Philip, even
after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has
seen me has seen the Father. How can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? 10
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words
I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.Rather, it
is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me;
or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12
Very truly I tell you, whoever
believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and
they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And
I will do whatever you ask in my name, so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
again you look at the word of God to prove what God cannot do. Your question is misguided and frankly what I would expect from a non-believer who is trying to disprove the word of God.
Jesus said "Don't you know me " Jesus was saying to Philip I AM enough. Did you not see what I have been doing? the very works that Jesus did prove HE is God. And the relationship you have with Jesus reveals the Father. When Jesus said the works that I do you will them too and greater work because HE goes to the Father. What was Jesus talking about? It is very clear IF you would have read verses 15-21.
Jesus was setting the stage for the coming help and work of The Holy Spirit. Jesus Knew that once the Holy Spirit had come and HE was leaving them they would be troubled Jesus said I will not leave like that. The Comforter will come. Acts 1:8 tell what the greater work is seeing people saved. That's it salvation through the foolishness of preaching the gospel men were saved.
16And I will pray the Father, and He will
give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.".
They would do more for the Kingdom. Jesus Is God but HE has chosen a man to be the one to take His message to the world That was the greater and is the greater work.
You make an excuse not to do greater works because of a made up word by liberal theologians? You hatred has blinded you. The greater work is not raising the dead, healing, speaking in tongues, or casting out devils the greater works is what John 14 says, shocking you did not see it :
from verse 1 -31
you believe in God, believe also in Me.
“If you had known Me,
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?
Believe Me that I
am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater
works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
“If you love Me, [
d]keep My commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [
e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him;
but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more,
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and [
f]manifest Myself to him.”
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
But the[
g]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
The peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.