The Way, The Truth and The Life

Ian Campbell on the irony of Jesus' statement of being, "The Way, The Truth and The Life":

This man says that he is the way; yet the paradox is that for him to be the way means going the way of the cross, and the way of betrayal and dereliction and pain. He says that he is the truth, and yet for him to be the truth means that the lie is in the ascendancy, as false witnesses rise to condemn him and the hour is given to the power of darkness. This man is the life, yet the irony is that for him to be the life for his people, the grain of wheat must fall into the ground and die. He can’t be the way for us unless he goes the way the Father has ordained for him. He can’t be the truth for us unless he meets the father of lies face to face and does business with God against the prince of darkness. He can’t be the life for us unless his body lies dead behind the closed door of a rich man’s grave.

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