“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”20 To set this verse in the context of John’s incarnational theology: just as Jesus is the “Word made flesh,” so he is “the way” made flesh, the path embodied in a life. The key question then becomes: What is “the way” that Jesus incarnates? What is “the way” that Jesus is? For John, as for the New Testament generally, “the way” embodied in Jesus is the path of death and resurrection. Dying and rising is the only way to God.
