<p>14:6- see on Jn. 13:37.</p><p><i>Jesus said to him: I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me</i>- The way to the cross had been lived out by the Lord throughout His life. And that too is &quot;the truth&quot;. &ldquo;The way&quot; was to the cross, and there we find and see the only true kind of life. That &ldquo;way&quot; of crucifixion life leads us to the Father, just as the Lord understood His death on the cross as a going to the Father. Because the cross so supremely manifested the Father, there we find Him, if we will live the life of Christ crucified. Yet if we keep His commandments, the Father and Son come to us (14:23), and we come to them. The cross enables a mutuality of relationship between us all. Note too that &ldquo;the way&quot; is now another term for &ldquo;the cross&quot;. They were asking where He was going; was He going to die on a cross? And He replies that &ldquo;I am the way&quot;- that they ought to have realized that His whole way of life was a cross carrying, and so of course, He would be literally going to die on the cross; He would follow His &ldquo;way&quot; to the end.</p><p><i>&ldquo;</i>I am <i>the</i> way&quot; may allude to the one great way of Proverbs. The whole way of life which leads to the Kingdom, the things we do, our deepest thoughts, our daily decisions; these are all &quot;the way&quot; which leads to the Kingdom; and yet Christ is &ldquo;the way&quot;. This clearly means that all these things, the very essence of our being, the fibre of our thought processes, the basis of all our works; must be the Lord Jesus Christ. The fact God&rsquo;s ways and principles are unchanging encourage our self-examination; for there is always the rock of God and His way against which to compare our ways. The Lord Jesus is the same yesterday and today and for ever.</p>