That day
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
The verse
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”John 14:6 · WEB
From the tradition
“For we may venture to say that the Gospel is the first fruits of all the Scriptures.”
Origen of Alexandria · Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book I, §4
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Allan Menzies, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, ed. Allan Menzies (1896)), checked against the source edition.