John 14:6 (WEB)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Catechism · 5
Life in Christ
“The first and last point of reference of this catechesis will always be Jesus Christ himself, who is "the way, and the truth, and the life."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 14:6.
The Eighth Commandment
“"Full of grace and truth," he came as the "light of the world," he is the Truth.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:14; 8:12; Cf. 14:6.
In the Fullness of Time
“Faith in the Son introduces the disciples into the knowledge of the Father, because Jesus is "the way, and the truth, and the life."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 14:6.
The Son of God Became Man
“"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 11:29; Jn 14:6.
The Transmission of Divine Revelation
“God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth": that is, of Christ Jesus.” — Catechism footnote: cf. Jn 14:6
Fathers and councils · 120
Augustine of Hippo
“And since He created all things by the Word, which Word is also designated the Truth, and the Power, and the Wisdom of God,—as also under many other appellations the Lord Jesus Christ, who is commended to our faith, is presented likewise to our mental apprehensions, to wit, our…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6; 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment““And Thy law is the truth,” and truth Thou.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” “who is over all, God blessed for ever,” calling unto me, and saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and mingling that food which I was unable to receive with our flesh.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“The “Way,” the Saviour Himself, was pleasant unto me, but as yet I disliked to pass through its straightness.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For this is joy in Thee, who art “the truth,” O God, “my light,” “the health of my countenance, and my God.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For Christ dwelleth in the inner man, as the Apostle says; for to Him doth it appertain to see truth, since He hath said, “I am the truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“According then to that which is said, “By Me man cometh to the Father,” rightly is it first, “my King;” and then, “my God.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For He is Himself “the Truth,” which He promised unto us at that time, when His Flesh was to be seen by the eye, that the foundation might be laid of that Faith, of which the Truth was to be the reward.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am the Truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: John viii. 12, xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…put away iniquity from their heel: let them walk in that way, let them walk in the way of which He saith Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life:” and let them not fear in the evil day, for He giveth them safety who became “The Way.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…everywhere Maker-alive, and of life the Giver, not of another life, but of that whereof hath been said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life:” in order that both here in the light of faith, and there in the light of sight, as it were in the light of the living, in the sight of the Lord we may be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…is the desert, horrible, and to be feared: and nevertheless God hath pitied us, and hath made for us a way in the desert, Himself our Lord Jesus Christ: and hath made for us a consolation in the desert, in sending to us preachers of His Word: and hath given to us water in the desert, by fulfilling with the Holy…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Therefore in death she was, in thyself: where will it be in life, save in Him that said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”?” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“We can learn of it from the Gospel: “I am the Way,” the Lord saith: Christ hath said, “I am the Way.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Be Thou with me, O Lord Jesus, to say to me, faint not in the narrow way, I first have gone along it, I am the way itself, I lead, in Myself I lead, unto Myself I lead home.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am,” He saith, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am,” He saith, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“If we fix our gaze on Him, we shall not stray: for He is Himself the Truth unto which we are eager to arrive, and He Himself the Way by which we run.…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“That bread is righteousness, that wine is righteousness: it is truth, Christ is truth.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Those are the testimonies, by which He deigneth to prove unto us how much He loveth us.…” — editor's note: Rom. v. 8, 9; John xiv. 6; Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“For everlasting is He who said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Himself hath said “I am the Truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Christ hath told us, “I am the Way.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am,” saith He, “the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment“Because, according to the form of God, He said, “I am the truth;” and according to the form of a servant, “I am the way.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment“And our Life is Christ, for He hath said Himself, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Is it not Himself who hath said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life”?” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“And “we shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall free us;” that is, Christ the Son of God who hath said, “I am the Truth,” shall make you free, that is, shall free you, not from barbarians, but from the devil; not from the captivity of the body, but from the iniquity of the soul.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“On the words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“On the same words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, “I am the way,” etc.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And hence, when our Saviour, so long after, had taken flesh of the seed of Abraham, He says of Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“When, then, a man lives according to the truth, he lives not according to himself, but according to God; for He was God who said, “I am the truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“And what reader or hearer of the Gospel can have failed to notice, that the same person who said, “I am the Truth,” taught us also this form of prayer; and in order to impress this particular petition deeply upon our minds, said, “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment“If, then, John is true, and a man cannot be true except from the Truth, from whom was he true, unless from Him who said, “I am the truth”?” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For Himself has said, “I am the truth;” but of that other He said, “He stood not in the truth, because the truth is not him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment““I am,” saith He, “the way, the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord Himself says most distinctly, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“If He is the truth, with Him came those who were truthful.” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“The heirs therefore of the New Testament are sanctified in that truth which was adumbrated in the purifications of the Old Testament; and when they are sanctified in the truth, they are in other words sanctified in Christ, who said in truth, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…and equal with the Father, saith: He, who for our sakes became man, but became not, like every man besides, a liar, saith: the Way, the Life, the Truth saith: He who overcame the world, saith of those for whom He overcame it: listen, believe, hope, desire what He saith: “Father,” He says, “I will that they also whom…” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“When Christ, therefore, beareth witness unto the truth, He beareth witness, of course, unto Himself; for from His own lips are the words, “I am the truth;” as He said also in another place, “I bear witness of myself.”” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 6.
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Origen
“We now, believing Jesus Himself, when He says respecting His divinity, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,” and employs other terms of similar import; and when He says respecting His being clothed with a human body, “And now ye seek to kill Me, a man that hath told…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus VI.66Book VI
“And no one asks, “How shall I learn the way which leads to Him?” because he has heard Him who says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,” and has tasted, in the course of the journey, the happiness which results from it.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VIII.12Book VIII
“Again He says, “I am the truth;” and surely none of us is so simple as to suppose that truth did not exist before the time when Christ appeared.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For life is immortality, and the Lord is that life, Who said, “I am the Life.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment“If Eunomius does assign them to one only of the Persons acknowledged in the creed, let him dare to call Him “not true in words” Who has said, “I am the Truth,” or to call the Spirit of truth “not true in words,” or let him refuse to give the title of “true in works” to Him Who doeth righteousness and judgment, or to…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment“For thus it is that He, Who said “I am the Way,” becomes to us who have put Him on the beginning of the ways of salvation, that He may make us the work of His own hands, new modelling us from the evil mould of sin once more to His own image.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.18On Virginity
“If any of the inspired words are required to aid our pleading, the Truth Itself will be sufficient to corroborate the truth when It inculcates this very kind of teaching in the veiled meaning of a Gospel Parable: the good and…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…then, becoming acquainted with Him, they ceased from their ignorance, and passed from death unto life, this name serving as their guide to the Father of truth.” — editor's note: Or, according to the Greek text, “being as the way to the Father;” comp. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…by those apostles who did also write the Gospel, in which they recorded the doctrine regarding God, pointing out that our Lord Jesus Christ is the truth, and that no lie is in Him.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“If ye had known Me, ye would have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye have both known Him, and have seen Him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6, 7.
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Tertullian
“If ye had known me, ye would have known the Father also: but henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 5–7.
Read the whole comment“…the print of thy foot: and God shall give thee a wearying heart, and a pining soul, and failing eyes, that they see not: and thy life shall hang on the tree before thine eyes; and thou shalt not trust thy life.”” — editor's note: In ligno. There are no such words in the LXX. If the words be retained, “thy life” will mean Christ, who is called “our Life” in Col. iii. 4. See also John i.…
Read the whole comment“Having found “the truth,” repent of errors; repent of having loved what God loves not: even we ourselves do not permit our slave-lads not to hate the things which are offensive to us; for the principle of voluntary obedience consists in similarity of minds.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“But our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And whereas the Lord Himself says, ‘I am the Truth,’ not ‘I became the Truth;’ but always, ‘I am,—I am the Shepherd,—I am the Light,’—and again, ‘Call ye Me not, Lord and Master? and ye call Me well, for so I…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6; x. 14; viii. 12; xiii. 13
Read the whole comment“Now the Son is all this, who says, ‘I am the Life,’ and, ‘I Wisdom dwell with prudence.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For what alters and changes, and has no stay in one and the same condition, how can that be true? whereas the Lord says, ‘I am the Truth.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“But if the whole earth hymns the Framer and the Truth, and blesses, and fears it, and its Framer is the Word, and He Himself says, ‘I am the Truth,’ it follows that the Word is not a creature, but alone proper to the Father, in whom all things are disposed, and He is celebrated by all, as Framer; for ‘I…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“…the Father in Me,’ and ‘I and the Father are one,’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and ‘I am the Light of the world,’ and, ‘I am the Truth;’ not setting down in every case the reason, nor the wherefore, lest He should seem second to those things for which He was made.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6, 9, 10; x. 30; viii. 12
Read the whole comment“For in It the Lord becomes our guide to the Kingdom of Heaven and to His own Father, saying, ‘I am the way’ and ‘the door,’ and ‘through Me all must enter.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 6; x. 9.
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.2Discourse III
“If then the Father be called the only true God, this is said not to the denial of Him who said, ‘I am the Truth,’ but of those on the other hand who by nature are not true, as the Father and His Word are.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“…and therefore also He is the Truth (saying, ‘I am the Truth,’ and in His address to His Father, He said, ‘Sanctify them through Thy Truth, Thy Word is Truth’); but we by imitation become virtuous and sons:—therefore not that we might become such as He, did He say ‘that they may be one as We are;’ but that as He,…” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 6; xvii. 17.
Read the whole comment “Moreover, the Son, according to John, is not merely ‘God’ but ‘True God;’ for according to the same Evangelist, ‘And the Word was God;’ and the Son said, ‘I am the Life.’” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For no more does death reign; but instead of death henceforth is life, since our Lord said, ‘I am the life;’ so that everything is filled with joy and gladness; as it is written, ‘The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For it is He Who, according to the blessed John, ‘taketh away the sin of the world.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 6; i. 29.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(John 14:6.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
“But if you have given diligence, let it be in Him who says, I am the life, (John 14:6.) otherwise the adversary will hale thee to the judge.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And to this day they rage and gather themselves together against the Lord, and against His Anointed, thinking that it is possible to be made friends of the Father apart from devotion towards the Son, being ignorant that no man cometh unto the Father but by the Son, who saith, I am the Door, and I am the Way.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“He is called a Way, not one trodden by feet, but leading to the Father in heaven; He is called a Sheep, not an irrational one, but the one which through its precious blood cleanses the world from its sins, which is led before the shearers, and knows when to be silent.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For they who know God the Father the Creator, ought also to know Christ the Son, lest they should flatter and applaud themselves about the Father alone, without the acknowledgment of His Son, who also said, “No man cometh to the Father but by me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“This truth Christ showed to us in His Gospel, and said, “I am the truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For since He says, that “whatsoever we shall ask of the Father in His name, He will give us,” how much more effectually do we obtain what we ask in Christ’s name, if we ask for it in His own prayer!” — editor's note: [Compare John xiv. 6. How can we come to the Father by the Son more effectually than by using the words which the Son has taught? Dr. Johnson thought…
Read the whole comment“In the Gospel: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh to the Father but by me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“In the Gospel according to John: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Gregory the Great
“He was not bidden to deny Christ; and yet for confessing Christ he was slain; because the same our Lord Jesus Christ had said, I am the truth (John xiv. 6); and because John was slain for the truth, he shed his blood for Christ.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“It is Truth, Righteousness, the Power of God: not dumb, for it is the Word; not insensible, for it is Wisdom; not vain and foolish, for it is Power; not soulless, for it is the Life; not dead, for it is the Resurrection.” — editor's note: Christ the Truth: S. John xiv. 6. Righteousness: Jer. xxxiii. 16; xxiii. 6; 1 Cor. i. 30. Power of God: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For it is written: “No man cometh to the Father, save by Me.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Hence it is that Christ is not only God, but very God indeed—very God of very God, insomuch that He Himself is the Truth.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Now the ways of the Lord are, we may say, certain courses taken in a good life, guided by Christ, Who says, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“These, observe, are names of the Son of God, Whose Might is certainly not a gift received from another, but just as He is the Life, not depending upon another’s quickening action, but Himself quickening others, because He is the Life; so also He is Wisdom, not as one that is ignorant…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“O fools, talking as though they knew not the difference between the word uttered and the Divine Word, abiding eternally, born of the Father—born, I say, not uttered only—in Whom is no combination of syllables, but the fulness of the eternal Godhead and life without end!” — editor's note: Col. i. 19; ii. 9; iii. 4; S. John i. 4; v. 26; xi. 25; xiv. 6; Rev. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“And we are the kingdom, first of Christ, then of the Father; as it is written: “No man cometh to the Father, but by Me.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Not only, then, is the Spirit called the Spirit of Truth, but also the Truth, as the Son is also declared to be the Truth, Who says: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For although there be many truths, since it is written: “Truths are minished from the sons of men;” yet they are given by the Divine Truth, which is Christ, Who says: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For now that the true light has arisen, ye wander as in the night, and stumble on places with no roads, and fall headlong, as having forsaken the way that saith, “I am the way.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
“This warning is given by the Lord Himself; it is none other that now teaches these Magi the way they should return, but He who said, “I am the way.” [John 14:6] Not that the Infant actually speaks to them, that His divinity may not be revealed before the time, and His human nature may be thought real.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…and is the fount of life, wherefore He is rightly called God the Father; for He is life as it were flowing out of a fountain, who said, “I am the life.” [John 14:6]” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“For He who had said that “He hath given Him (the Son) to have life” ( c. v. 26 ); the Same saith in another place, “I am the Life” ( c. xiv. 6 ); and in another, “I am the Light.” ( c. viii. 12.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Where now are those who deny that He is true God? for here He is called “the true Light” ( c. xiv. 6 ), and elsewhere very “Truth” and very “Life.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“As He saith above, “No man cometh unto Me except it be given him” ( c. vi. 65 ); and, “Except My Father draw him” ( c. vi. 64 ); so here too, “Whom thou gavest Me.” ( c. xiv. 6.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““I,” He saith, “am the Way: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” ( c. xiv. 6.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And everywhere He affirms this; as when He saith, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“What this truth is, stands beyond doubt; it is of course He Who said: I am the Life, the Way, the Truth.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; or else believe for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 6–11.
Read the whole comment“…in the Gospel, No one cometh to Me, except the Father draw Him to Mewhich stand side by side with those other words, No one cometh unto the Father but by Me: just as in this Epistle Christ subjects His enemies to Himself, yet God subjects them to Him, and He witnesses throughout this, his work of subjection, that…” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“Of this, I think, there is no doubt; for He says, I am the way, and, No man cometh to the Father except through Me.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 6.
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Jerome
“…that He is also for our sakes subject to the Father to make us too subject to Him as He says in the gospel: “No man cometh unto the Father but by me,” and “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”” — editor's note: Joh. xiv. 6.
Read the whole comment“He it was who hedged up and enclosed my evil ways that I might find Him the true way who says in the gospel, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: Joh. xiv. 6.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Let us adore Him Who sat down and took rest; and walked in the way, so that the Way was in the way, and the Door also for them that go in, by which they go in to the kingdom.” — editor's note: John x. 9, xiv. 6.
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Basil the Great
“…manifold wisdom, he bestows on them that need, Scripture designates Him by innumerable other titles, calling Him Shepherd, King, Physician, Bridegroom, Way, Door, Fountain, Bread, Axe, and Rock.” — editor's note: e.g., John xiv. 6.
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John Cassian
“…of the flesh of the Virgin, no phantasm of a body, but the Truth: for He is the Truth, according to His own witness of Truth: “I am the Truth and the life.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
““I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life;” and “I am the Light of the World.”” — editor's note: John vii. 12; ix. 5; xiv. 6.
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Catena Aurea on John
- OrigenCatena Aurea on John
“But if it is Jesus who says below, I am the Truth, (John 14:6) how is truth made by Jesus?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
If the Jews, who wished to be separated from Christ, asked whither He was going, much more would the disciples, who wished never to be separated from Him, be anxious to know it. So with much love, and, at the same…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord had said that they knew both, Thomas says that they knew neither. Our Lord cannot lie; they knew not that they did know. Our Lord proves that they did: Jesus saith unto Him, I am the way, the truth, and the…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
As if He said, I am the way, whereby thou wouldest go; I am the truth, whereto thou wouldest go; I am the life, in which thou wouldest abide. The truth and the life every one understands (capit); but not every one…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
For He who is the way doth not lead us into devious courses out of the way; nor does He who is the truth deceive us by falsehoods; nor does He who is the life leave us in the darkness of death.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
When thou art engaged in the practical, He is made thy way; when in the contemplative, He is made thy truth. And to the active and the contemplative is joined life: for we should both act and contemplate with…
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They knew then the way, because they knew He was the way. But what need to add, the truth, and the life? Because they were yet to be told whither He went. He went to the truth; He went to the life. He went then to…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
For if, He says, ye have Me for your guide to the Father, ye shall certainly come to Him. Nor can ye come by any other way. (c. 6:44) Whereas He had said above, No man can come to Me, except the Father draw him, now…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on John
How can our Lord say, If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also; when He has just said, Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know? We must suppose that some of them knew, and others not: among the…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
Or thus: When it is said that the Son is the way to the Father, is it meant that He is so by His teaching, or by His nature? We shall be able to see from what follows: If ye had known Me, ye should have known My…
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Leo the Great
““Hear ye Him,” therefore, unhesitatingly, in Whom I am throughout well pleased, and by Whose preaching I am manifested, by Whose humiliation I am glorified; because He is “the Truth and the Life,” He is My “Power and Wisdom.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6; 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“…leader, how shall we share in the name of Christ save by being inseparably united to Him, Who is, as He Himself asserted, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life?” the Way that is of holy living, the Truth of Divine doctrine, and the Life of eternal happiness.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…that philosophy is characterized by investigation into truth and the nature of things (this is the truth of which the Lord Himself said, “I am the truth”); and that, again, the preparatory training for rest in Christ exercises the mind, rouses the intelligence, and begets an inquiring shrewdness, by means of the…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6.
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Cited together in Catechism §459.
Cited together in Catechism §2466 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2466 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 84 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 108.
Cited together in Catechism §1698.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in Catechism §74.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.9.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions VII.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.15.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XI.30.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XI.30.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Catechism §459.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XI.30.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against the Arians III.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians III.2.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XI.30.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.5.
Cited together in Confessions X.23.
Cited together in Confessions X.23.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.5.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XI.30.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 23.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Confessions IV.9.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.5.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.5.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Confessions IV.9.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 16:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 2:12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus I.66.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.66.
Cited together in Catechism §2466.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 74.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §459.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 16:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in Catechism §459.
Cited together in Catechism §459.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 2:6–7 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Origen on Luke 12:58–59 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §2466 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.
Cited together in Catechism §2466.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 39.
Cited together in Catechism §2466 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 84 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Confessions X.23 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Confessions X.23.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Catechism §2466.