Reading the Gospel

Jesus comforted His disciples by telling them, as a young man tells his would-be bride, that He goes to prepare a place for them in His Heavenly Father’s house. Then He will return to take them home and be together for eternity. And Thomas said that if the disciples don’t know where He is going, how can they know the way there, to follow Him? Jesus answered “I am the Way. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known my Father also.” This episode unpacked this “I am” statement, which later became the name for the first Christians and the basis for understanding Jesus’ unity with His Father.