It is added by way of explanation of him, as the way.īible Commentary of 'The Way, The Truth, The Life' He always, and ever will be the way all in this way live, none ever die, and it is a way that leads to eternal life: and to conclude all the epithets in one sentence, Christ is the true way to eternal life. More truly do they speak, when, in answer to that question, "what is truth?" it is said, that he is the living God, and King of the world, characters that well agree with Christ.Īnd the Life. Christ is the author and giver of life, natural, spiritual, and eternal or he is the way of life, or "the living way" in opposition to the law, which was so far from being the way of life, that it was the ministration of condemnation and death. That the law of Moses was the truth, is certain but it is too strong an expression to say of Moses himself, that he was the truth but well agrees with Christ, by whom grace and truth came in opposition to Moses, by whom came the law: but when they say, "there is no truth but the law", they do not speak the truth. This they make Korah and his company say in hell. They have a saying, that, "Moses and his law are the truth." And this phrase seems to be opposed to a notion of the Jews, that the law was the true way of life, and who confined truth to the law. They are all full of him and center in him and he is the truth of all the types and shadows, promises and prophecies of the Old Testament they have all their accomplishment in him and he is the true way, in opposition to all false ones of man's devising. He is the way of his Father's appointing, and which is entirely agreeable to the perfections of God, and suitable to the case and condition of sinners. I am the Way. Our Lord takes the opportunity of this discourse about the place he was going to, and the way unto it, more fully to instruct his disciples concerning himself, saying, "I am the way." Christ is not merely the way, as he goes before his people as an example or merely as a prophet, pointing out unto them by his doctrine the way of salvation but he is the way of salvation itself by his obedience and sacrifice nor is there any other. The following commentary is an excerpt from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible: No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.” John 14:5-10 Meaning of "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" ![]() How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 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. Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 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. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” ![]() If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. No one comes to the Father except through me. “Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “ I am the way and the truth and the life.
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