Unique to The Gospel According to John are Jesus' "I am" sayings, such as - "I am the way, and the truth, and the life." We have received the New Testament in Koine Greek (the common Greek of the time), but Jesus normally spoke the Semitic language Aramaic. To comprehend the meaning of the "I am" symbolism, it is necessary to include the Aramaic sense of action whenever we read variations of the verb "to be." In other words, we must probe beneath the Greek to the Aramaic language, in order to try to think as Jesus did. Having done this, we might interpret this "I am" saying as meaning "I am/live/make real the way, and the truth, and the life."