after an epexegetical kai: “the truth and the life” (kai hē alētheia kai hē zōē).17 Jesus is the way to the Father because he is the truth and the life. The earlier use of these two Johannine expressions, from their use in the prologue (see 1:4, 14, 17) through the story itself, points to Jesus as the authoritative and saving revelation of God to the world (alētheia: 1:14, 17; 5:33; 8:32, 40, 44–46; zōē: 1:4, 6:33, 35, 48, 63, 68; 8:12; 10:10; 11:25).18 But Jesus’ claim to be “the way” is
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