John 14:5 Commentary - Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

1) "Thomas saith unto him, Lord," (legei auto Thomas kurie) "Thomas said directly to him, Lord," with love for his Master, but a morbid tendency toward doubt and uncertainty, a seeming trait of his character, Joh 11:16.

2) "We know not whither thou goest;” (ouk oidamen pou hupageis) "We do not really know where you go," though He had repeatedly told them what awaited Him in His coming betrayal, suffering, and death. He and they did not know clearly or distinctly. It appears that they rather fancied His going to Bethlehem, Nazareth, or Capernaum to be anointed as king, a thing for which many clamored, Joh 6:15.

3) "And how can we know the way?" (pos oidamen ten hodon) "How do we (then) know the way?" perceive or comprehend the way. Thomas had missed both the “goal" for which He had come into the world, as the "Lamb" of God, to take away the sin of the world, by being lifted up upon the cross, to save the lost, Joh 1:29; Joh 3:14-15: Luk 19:10; and the "way-to the Father, by or through Him, Joh 10:10-11.