CHARACTERISTICS OF TRUTH
‘I am the truth.’
What does Jesus mean by this claim? What is the truth of which He is speaking?
In order to understand this aright, we must understand what are the nature, the properties, the characteristics of the truth.
I. The word ‘truth’ speaks for itself.—In the Hebrew it is the equivalent of that which is firm, immovable.
II. What is truth?—Truth is—
(a) A Revealer.
(b) Divine in its origin.
(c) Infinite, vast, inexhaustible.
(d) Necessary to the completeness of life.
(e) Immortal.
(f) Pure.
(g) A Liberator.
Jesus said, ‘I am the Truth.’ Can we resist His claim? Is it not true? Surely in Him truth finds its embodiment as nowhere else, and hence we call it ‘the truth as it is in Jesus.’
Bishop C. J. Ridgeway.