by Shawnte Pierce

Created on: December 30, 2008

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." John 14:6 NASB

John 1:14 tells us that the Word became flesh, Jesus. Jumping ahead in scripture to the fourteenth chapter of John verse six and Jesus tells us that He is "the way, the truth, and the life". First let's look at the simplest aspect of this passage, Jesus as the Truth.

Jesus is the Word made flesh. So what does God say about His Word? "G-d is not a man, that He should lie" - Numbers 23:19(a) JPS. We know from scripture that we can take God at His Word, for His Word is true. Well if God's Word is true and Jesus is the Word made flesh, then Jesus is the Truth. Now we go to Jesus as the Life.

We are still looking at Jesus being the Word made flesh as we study Jesus as the Life. This is where Old and New Testament come together to explain in the books of the gospel of John, Deuteronomy, and the gospel of Matthew.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst." - John 6:35 NASB. Now John 6:35 alone is incomplete without knowing Deuteronomy 8:3.

"And He afflicted thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of HaShem(The Name(of God)) doth man live." - Deuteronomy 8:3 JPS

Now the gospel of Matthew brings it all together.

While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body." - Matthew 26:26 NASB

How do these three scriptures show Jesus is the Life. Before Jesus proclaimed in John 6:35 to be the "bread of life", Deuteronomy 8:3 tells us that man lives on the Word of God. Now Matthew comes along and ties John and Deuteronomy together during the last meal Jesus had with His disciples, when Jesus used the bread as a symbol for His body, His flesh. For those analytical minds out there this becomes an If/Then analysis [IF the Word = Life AND Jesus = Word THEN Jesus = Life].

In our study of John 14:6 we will close with a look at how the first 4 words of Jesus tie into the second half of the verse.

This entire verse is complete, however there is a very important statement here that stands out to me and sums up our need for salvation. If we just focus on the verse as this "I am the way ; no one comes to the Father but through

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