John 14:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus saith unto him,I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ”

• John 14:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I am the way - See Isaiah 35:8 . By this is meant, doubtless, that they and all others were to have access to God only by obeying the instructions, imitating the example, and depending on the me...

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• John 14:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, I am (d) the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (d) This saying shows unto us the nature, the will, and office of Christ.

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• John 14:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 14:1-4 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Him...

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• John 14:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Jesus . App-98. am. This affirmation used by our Lord at least twenty-five times in John. See John 4:26 ; John 6:20 ("It is I". Greek Ego eimi), 35, 41, 48, 51; John 8:12 ; John 8:18 ; Jo...

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• John 14:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. I am the way. Though Christ does not give a direct reply to the question put to him, yet he passes by nothing that is useful to be known. It was proper that Thomas’ curiosity should be ch...

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• John 14:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1684 NO WAY TO GOD BUT THROUGH CHRIST John 14:6 . Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me . THERE is in the Christian ch...

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• John 14:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. I am the Way - That leads so the Father: - the Truth that teaches the knowledge of God, and dire...

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• John 14:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I am the way, and the truth, and the life:— Our Lord, most probably, had here in view the metaphors which he formerly used, I am the door of the sheep, Ch. John 10:7 . I am the bread of life,...

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• John 14:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Jesus saith unto him, I AM THE WAY - in what sense is explained in the last clause: but...

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• John 14:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Comforter 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heaven...

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• John 14:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I am the way. — The pronoun is emphatic. “I, and none besides Me.” “The way” is again made prominent, reversing the order which Thomas had used. He and He only is the means through which men can ap...

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• John 14:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE. "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and strai...

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• John 14:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life John 14:1-11 As He neared the end, our Lord could speak of little else than the Father. Heaven was His Father's house, where a prepared mansion awaits ea...

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• John 14:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He t...

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• John 14:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. (3) And i...

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• John 14:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE LIVING WAY ‘I am the way.’ John 14:6 To what does the way lead? I. It is the way to the Father’s house of which He has just spoken, where God manifests His Presence to His people, an...

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• John 14:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus saith unto him, 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 himsel...

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• John 14:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Ver. 6. I am the way, and the truth, &c. ] As if he should say, Thou hast no whither to...

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• John 14:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thomas saith Taking him in a gross sense; Lord, we know not whither thou goest “As their thoughts turned very much on a temporal kingdom, they might imagine that their Master intended to remove t...

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• John 14:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let n...

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• John 14:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Consolatory Discourse.       4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.   5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whith...

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• John 14:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Christ was his own way to his Father; By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, Hebrews 9:12 . See Luke 24:26 Philippians 2:8 . But both the former words, where the apostle...

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• John 14:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Their Certainty For The Future Lies In Their Knowing Him As The One Who Is The Way To The Father And Is The One Who Fully Reveals the Father ( John 14:4-11 ). Having made clear their final destiny...

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• John 14:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 14:1 . The discourse begun at John 13:31 is here continued. Here our Lord not merely answers fully Peter’s question, “Whither goest Thou?” ( John 13:36 ), bu...

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• John 14:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 14:6 Christ the Way I. If it be asked where this way begins, and whither it goes, the answer is evident. It begins in the cold, dark, desolate region, into which sin has thrown the moral and...

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• John 14:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 14:1 . Let not your heart be troubled: This is one of those verses that you may read as slowly as you like, and spell out every letter, and find honey in it all. John 14:1 . Ye believe in...

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• John 14:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 14:1 . Let not your heart be troubled. Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; so...

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• John 14:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Whither I go ye know The interpellation of Thomas Observe I. THAT A MAN MAY, IN SPIRITUAL THINGS, KNOW MORE THAN HE IS CONSCIOUS OF KNOWING. “Ye know,” “We know not.” It may be said that our...

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• John 14:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ. It is enough that the awful war...

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• John 14:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An interruption by Thomas:

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• John 14:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:45 ; 1 John 1:1 ; 1 John 1:2 ; 1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 2:23 ; 1 John 5:11 ; 1 John 5:12 ; 1 John 5:20 ; 1 John 5:6 ; 1 Peter 1:21 ; 1 Peter 2:4 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; 2 Corinthian...

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• John 14:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Comfort Chapter John 14:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward...

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• John 14:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  To the question concerning the way, he answers, I am the way. To the question concerning knowledge, he answers, I am the truth. To the question whither, I am the life. The first is treated of in th...

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