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Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?

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After the last supper in Jn 14:

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Jesus spoke on what happened after his death and resurrection.

20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
Judas wanted to know more specifically how that would happen.

23 Jesus answered 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. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
Love, that's how. You will see Jesus if and only if you love him. More technically:

25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper [Paraclete], the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
The Paraclete will dwell in the people who love Jesus.

How will Jesus manifest to believers and not to the world?

If you love Jesus, the Paraclete will manifest to you by dwelling in your spirit.