Everything I say is the truest true.

There are some groups of people who call themselves Christians and yet deny that Jesus Christ was really God in the flesh. This mistake would be just an adorable bit of silliness if only it weren’t so important. And yet, sometimes we all fail to see things that are embarrassingly obvious once someone else observes them for us.

For instance, every prophet in the Old Testament uses the phrase, “Thus says the Lord.” The importance of this is that it differentiates the announcer from the Author, clearly demarcating the speaker as the merely human mouthpiece rather than the Divine source of the message.

But then something really odd happens when Jesus shows up. He never says, “Thus says the Lord.” Instead, the trademark Jesusism is, “Truly, truly I say to you.” Not only does He call His words inerrant (literally true truth), but he deliberately draws a contrast between Himself and the Old Testament prophets by intentionally uniting both the human announcer and the Divine Author in His own Person.