I and the Father are ONE [neuter]

[tonychanyt]

NIV John 10:30

I and the Father are one.

Vincent's Word Studies:

One (ἕν)
The neuter, not the masculine εἶς, one person. It implies unity of essence, not merely of will or of power.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary:

I and my Father are one—Our language admits not of the precision of the original in this great saying. "Are" is in the masculine gender—"we (two persons) are"; while "one" is neuter—"one thing."

Ellicott:

for the Greek word for “one” is neuter, and the thought is not, therefore, of unity of person, but is of unity of essence.

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:

30. I and my Father are one] ‘One’ is neuter in the Greek; not one. Person, but one Substance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible:

I and my Father are one - The word translated "one" is not in the masculine, but in the neuter gender. It expresses union, but not the precise nature of the union. It may express any union, and the particular kind intended is to be inferred from the connection. In the previous verse he had said that he and his Father were united in the same object that is, in redeeming and preserving his people. It was this that gave occasion for this remark. Many interpreters have understood this as referring to union of design and of plan. The words may bear this construction. In this way they were understood by Erasmus, Calvin, Bucer, and others. Most of the Christian fathers understood them, however, as referring to the oneness or unity of nature between the Father and the Son;

The neuter adjective "one" (ἕν) emphasizes general oneness in nature. Had Jesus wished to emphasize specific oneness in personal being, he would have used the masculine εἶς.

The same Greek word (ἕν) is used in John 17:

20“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

We have a mysterious oneness with God as a spiritual reality.

22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them,

I believe that's the Paraclete.

that they may be one even as we are one, 23I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

We are united as one with the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit by our connection with the Paraclete as a spiritual reality.