He uttered seven great statements about Himself that began with the words I am. “I am the Bread of Life”, “I am the Good Shepherd”, “I am the door” and so on. Each tells us about a ministry of Jesus but suggests powerfully that He is more than man, that he is the Son of God, that He is God the Son.
In this particularI am statement He begins by saying that He is the Way. The sense is of the unique way. He has said that He is going away. Thomas has said that he wants to follow on to where Jesus is going. So it is natural that Jesus should say that His whole life, ministry and death is the way to God. If sinful people want to know how to find God and how to come to God and how to please God the first thing we must realize is that Jesus is the Way. “Jesus does not merely show the way: He is himself the way. It is true that he teaches the way….guides us in the way…..and has dedicated for us a new and living way (Hebrews chapter 10 verse 20); but all this is possible only because he is himself the way.” (W Hendriksen – Commentary on John’s Gospel) Hendriksen goes on to talk about the fact that Jesus doesn’t just talk about the Love of God but that, because Jesus is God, he himself is the Love of God. This can be applied to all of God’s marvelous characteristics or attributes. Patience, Holiness, Compassion and so on. Jesus in Himself is all these things.
Jesus also says that He is the Truth. Man has long sought for the truth. Various religions claim to have the truth. Many philosophers have spent a lifetime seeking the truth. The word by Jesus is a noun that means "the reality lying at the basis of an appearance; the manifested, veritable essence of a matter" (Cremer). But we must go on to notice that the Truth is not a system of teaching, philosophy or doctrine, but a living person. Jesus makes truth known simply by being Jesus. John starts his Gospel by telling us 18 No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. John 1:18 (RSV) Jesus answers Philip’s request "Lord,
