"I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. No-one comes to the Father, but by me."

A well-known and oft-quoted scripture, but have we fully understood what Jesus meant when he used these terms to speak of himself and how would these terms have been understood by Jews in Jesus' day?

JESUS IS THE WORD (TORAH) MADE FLESH
THE 'WORD' REFERRED TO IS TORAH
TORAH IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

WAY
The Hebrew word for 'way' is derek, (Strongs 1870) which means way, road, direction, course of life.
TORAH literally means "direction" or "instruction for life"
"Train a child up in the WAY he should go and he will not depart from it."

TRUTH
"Your righteousness is a righteousness forever and your Torah is Truth." (Ps.119:142)

LIFE
"For it (Torah) is not an empty word for you, for it is your life and in this word you will live long of days in the land there which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess." (Deut 32:47)

Jesus taught the "WAY of God in truth" (Mt 22:16, 2Pet. 2:21) Early believers were called "People of The WAY".

Jesus did not come to do away with the Law (Torah). He taught people what it meant to walk in it in Truth, and to epitomize, by his own life, what it meant to walk in it fully.

Jesus kept the Torah (Laws)of God. If he had not, He could not have defeated Satan. He was the perfect unblemished Lamb of God.

Why then do many Christians see Torah keeping as bondage? And what does it mean to keep Torah when so many of the Laws seem irrelevant to us?