Amen is a Hebrew word used to affirm something as true. It means ‘Truly’ or ‘Yes! That is good!’ Christians and Jews say it at the end of prayers or speeches in order to show that they agree wholeheartedly with what has been said. In John’s Gospel, Jesus often said it twice at the start of a statement to emphasis the truth of what He was about to say. In some versions of the Bible this is translated by ‘verily, verily’ or ‘truly, truly’. In Revelation 3:14 Jesus is described as ‘the Amen’ meaning that He is the expression of everything that is true and good from God.
