a personal, relational concept that has its roots and origin in none other than God himself. As the psalmist (Ps. 31:5, NIV) and the prophet (Isa. 65:16) call God “the God of truth,” so John’s Gospel proclaims that God is truth, and that therefore his Word is truth.13 Jesus, then, is the truth, because he is sent from God and has come to reveal the Father and to carry out his salvation- historical purposes.14 For this reason the only way for us to know the truth is to know God through Jesus Christ