page_title: Via et veritas et vita
section_title: New Testament
hierarchical_section_title: Via et veritas et vita / New Testament
caption_attribution_description: English: I took photo with Canon camera in Shamrock, TX.
context_page_description: Via et veritas et vita is a Latin phrase meaning "the way and the truth and the life". The words are taken from Vulgate version of John 14:6, and were spoken by Jesus Christ in reference to himself.
  These words, and sometimes the asyndetic variant via veritas vita, have been used as the motto of various educational institutions and governments.
context_section_description: The phrase is found in verse 6 of chapter 14 of the Gospel of John, as part of Jesus' Farewell Discourse during the Last Supper:
  "⁵ Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ ⁶ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.’"(New Revised Standard Version)
  In the Latin Vulgate, verse 6 states 'dicit ei Iesus ego sum via et veritas et vita nemo venit ad Patrem nisi per me.
  The phrase "The Way" is also found in Acts 9:2 and 19:23 as a term to describe the early church.
caption: John 14:6 sign along U.S. Route 66 in Shamrock in Wheeler County, Texas
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