John 14:6-7
Jesus Says I AM TRUTH
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:1-31
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
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.
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
What kind of Man gets up and says I AM TRUTH?...First to say something like this makes One very controversial...It makes one question why would He say something like this...It is like He is saying that He knows the story of creation, the meaning of life and how it started...And how would He know these things?...I have personally never heard any other man say this, and I have never read that any other man has said that he is truth...But before Jesus was arrested He told His Disciples very much Spiritual information and much about Himself...In these two verses alone Jesus not only says the He is TRUTH, but He also adds that He is the Way, and the Life...He also adds the very controversial statement that no one comes to the Father except through Him...Then He adds that if we really know Him, then we also know God as well...And from know on those who have seen Jesus have also seen God...And He tells us that before Abraham was born I AM...
These two verses are packed with Divinity, Faith, Mystery, and Controversy...These verses are also directed at those who believe in Jesus...Jesus knew there would be people who would not believe in His statements, He had many Pharisees and other religious officials, as well as others, who did not believe in Him or have faith in Him when He was right there talking to Him...He had people in His own hometown not have faith and believe in what He was saying and doing...
It is easy not to believe now because we are two thousand years removed from Jesus and His miracles and His teachings...But the people who met Him and also saw His miracles had to know that He was eternally different from them as they heard Him and saw Him do what He did, yet He was human and we believe in, well, what we believe...So anyone who does not love Him will not obey His teachings or believe in Him...Anyone who does not believe in Him does not have to accept any of His teachings or miracles...Or they can say He was just a good Teacher who taught good things, but the New Testament writers are men who exaggerated His Story and life, and the gospels are like Jesus more exaggerations...
For those not believing in Jesus they see these statements as myth or exaggeration or something other than the Truth...But for believers they mean everything...To the believer these words are historical, and historically correct, and that Jesus is an historical figure who happened to say these things...These statements give purpose to a life of no meaning...
And to answer the question What Kind of Man says I AM TRUTH and how would He know these things...He came from above, He comes from God...