The anaphoric/ epistrophe "I am" expression used in statements by Christ

[JustMe]

There is a new 21st century resurgence, a new wave of interest and discussion of the “I am” expression statements used by Christ, especially in the Gospels. And these discussions are not without controversy, with classic agenda that cause strife and more fragmentation within Christendom.​

This OP will mostly address the anaphoric (beginning of the statement) and not the epistrophe (end of the statement) expression "I am." Both styles of statements are equally important and need to be discussed however.

How is Yeshua identified, at least in the Gospels​

When Jesus asked his disciples, “who do you say that I am?”, the response was “Christ” (Mark 8:29), or “Christ of God” (Luke 9:20), or “Christ, the Son of living God” (Matthew 16:16). Indeed, Jesus self-identified as the “Son of God” in Luke 22:70, John 10:36, and Matthew 27:43 and the “Son of Man” in Mark 8:38, Luke 5:24, 9:26, 12:8, 22:48. Key references in John are John 4:25-26, John 8:28, John 10:24-25 and John 20:31 where Yeshua identifies himself and is also identified as “the Christ,” “the Son of Man,” and “the Son of God”. The main point of the preaching of the apostles in the book of Acts, from those who were chosen by Christ, is that “Christ is Yeshua.” This is reiterated in Acts 2:36, Acts 5:42, Acts 9:22, Acts 17:3, and Acts 18:15. [1]

The seven primary "I Am" anaphoric statements, not necessarily called the ‘great’ “I Am” statements of Yeshua as some call them, in the Gospel of John are: "I am the bread of life" [6:35, 48, 51] , "I am the light of the world" [8:12; 9:5] , "I am the door of the sheep" [10:7, 9] , "I am the good shepherd" [10:11, 14] , "I am the resurrection and the life" [11:25] , "I am the way, the truth, and the life" [14:6] , and "I am the true vine" [15:1].

These statements are central to John's Gospel and are intended to reveal and reinforce that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of the living God and also the Son of Man. No other writer clearly defines Yeshua as the Messiah, the Son of God and the Son of Man as John. These titles complement each other and form the basis for then clearly understanding his emphatic words or “I am” statements to us.

With this one major portion of Christ’s identity established, one is less likely to create abstract and incorrect title(s) for him, like the divine one or even by the extreme name or title of God, YHWH or as another YHWH. Unfortunately those that do this do a great disservice not only to God, his Father and to Yeshua himself; also to others new in Christ still learning the basic knowledge of who is their God and Savior, found within scripture.

Now the other complimentary other half of this foundation must be established, necessary to understand how Yeshua identifies alongside his own Father’s identity. The Father knows who his son is better than anyone. His Father planned his existence eons ago, and then at the proper time and place, created him the Son of Man, as the 2nd Adam, anointed him as Messiah, dwelt within his Spirit, within his Son’s spirit, and heavily influenced his mind. His Father dwelt in him and virtually ‘carried’ him to the Cross to die for us. The Son was the perfect human agent of his Father in many ways. This became a very close-knit relationship and deep love of the Father for his Son, and vice versa, for us. The Father resurrected this human Christ immortal, and gave him authority and power to perform specific tasks for his Father, even today. His Father has always been the source of divinity, immortality and the creator God, the creator of all things and all spirits in existence, including his many messengers, and including his Son and us. The Father God is the one YHWH (prior to this name, called the Most High).

Now with this 2 part foundation of Christ’s and his Father’s identity and position laid in, we can now lay in a course to build upon, to examine and understand scripture much clearer, more accurately, with much less confusion, especially of the “I am” words of Yeshua, of the Father, who is the one God.

I would consider discussion of this OP and each of the '7 statements' of Christ in John and other areas of scripture, all appropriate...and more

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[1] (I am Statements, 2025)

 

[JustMe]

Well let me start this thread off with the John 8:24 "I am" statement. Write it out as I read it...

(Joh 8:24) I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, if you don't believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."
(Joh 8:25) They asked, "Then who are you?" Jesus answered, "I am what I have told you from the beginning.
(Joh 8:26) I have much more I could say to judge you. But I tell people only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he speaks the truth."
(Joh 8:27) They did not understand who he was talking about. He was telling them about the Father.
(Joh 8:28) So he said to them, "You will lift up the Son of Man. Then you will know that I AM. You will know that whatever I do is not by my own authority. You will know that I say only what the Father has taught me.
(Joh 8:29) The one who sent me is with me. I always do what pleases him. So he has not left me alone."
(Joh 8:30) While he was saying these things, many people believed in him. (ERV)


In verse 24 Jesus insists the people know who Yeshua is, else without this knowledge, they will not have the opportunity to believe in him, and consequently their sins will not be forgiven upon their death.

So they ask him who are you, in verse 25. And Yeshua replies, I already told you from/at the beginning, of our discussions or when he first met them.

Then Yeshua, in verses 26 - 29, speaks about his God, his Father. Yeshua is again hinting about who he is, as his position with and the work of his Father, who is God.

In verse 28 Yeshua broadcasts to the people he is the Son of Man, a human being, a human person.
In verses 28 and 29, by strong inference, Yeshua is also saying he is the anointed one, the Messiah of God. Yeshua, the man had to be anointed or become the Messiah of God, filled with the power of his Father in order to succeed to the Cross. Yeshua had no power or authority in himself or independently, he depended solely on his Father, who is the one God. Yeshua performed his work as the special human being separated by God for this special mission. He was born to become the agent of God, to speak the word of God to execute the human sacrifice portion of God's plan for salvific restoration.

And then in verse 30, many knew Yeshua was a man, a human person born of God and also the Messiah of God. And many consequently then believed on him and did not die in their sins, as his Father God told his Son.

Now for someone to suggest from verse 24, and/or verse 28, to conclude that Yeshua was divine or the same as his Father, YHWH, they need to really hide their heads in shame. They dishonor both the Son and the Father, who is YHWH.

The term "I am" that should not be capitalized, is an emphatic metaphoric expression for the self-identification of Yeshua, and it's not YHWH or the divine one either. It is the Son of Man, the Messiah of God as his Son.

 

[JustMe]

More good news to share that Yeshua is not God and still not God.

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John 4:10 and 26 – Epistrophe I am – The woman at the well​

The scripture:

(Joh 4:7) A Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

(Joh 4:8) This happened while his followers were in town buying some food.

(Joh 4:9) The woman answered, "I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!" (Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

(Joh 4:10) Jesus answered, "You don't know what God can give you. And you don't know who I am, the one who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water."

(Joh 4:11) The woman said, "Sir, where will you get that living water? The well is very deep, and you have nothing to get water with.

(Joh 4:12) Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? He is the one who gave us this well. He drank from it himself, and his sons and all his animals drank from it too."

(Joh 4:13) Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

(Joh 4:14) But anyone who drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside them. It will bring them eternal life."

(Joh 4:15) The woman said to Jesus, "Sir, give me this water. Then I will never be thirsty again and won't have to come back here to get more water."

(Joh 4:16) Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back."

(Joh 4:17) The woman answered, "But I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.

(Joh 4:18) That's because, although you have had five husbands, the man you live with now is not your husband. That much was the truth."

(Joh 4:19) The woman said, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.

(Joh 4:20) Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people must worship."

(Joh 4:21) Jesus said, "Believe me, woman! The time is coming when you will not have to be in Jerusalem or on this mountain to worship the Father.

(Joh 4:22) You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews.

(Joh 4:23) But the time is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. In fact, that time is now here. And these are the kind of people the Father wants to be his worshipers.

(Joh 4:24) God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

(Joh 4:25) The woman said, "I know that the Messiah is coming." (He is the one called Christ.) "When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

(Joh 4:26) Then Jesus said, "He is talking to you now—I am the Messiah."(ERV)

The setting:

Yeshua sat alone by Jacob’s well after his disciples left for food, waiting for a Samaritan woman. God intended to send a message of salvation to Samaria through her.

The conversation:

When the woman arrived at the well, Yeshua asked her for water to fulfil God's will and to hydrate. She hesitated, noticing he was Judean, since Judeans and Samaritans typically did not associate. She asked why he sought water from her. Yeshua explained that, if she understood who he was—the Messiah—she would have requested living water for eternal life. The woman did not grasp his meaning. Yeshua then told her to bring her husband, though he already knew (from his Father) she was unmarried and living with a man, leading her to suggest he was a prophet.

The takeaway:

The Samaritans, as this woman is one, while believing in the one true God, had a limited understanding of Him because they only accepted the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) as authoritative and rejected the prophetic and historical books. This led to a form of worship that lacked the full revelation of God's character and his will found in the complete Hebrew Scriptures.

In contrast, the Jews possessed the full canon of the Old Testament, which included the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, providing a more comprehensive understanding of God and His covenant promises. Yeshua affirmed that the Jews had been entrusted with the oracles of God, giving them a unique role in preserving divine revelation. The phrase "salvation is from the Jews" does not imply that salvation is exclusive to ethnic Jews, but rather that the Messiah, the source of salvation, would come from the Jewish people and that the message of salvation was first revealed through them. This is supported by Old Testament prophecies and the historical context of God's covenant with Israel.

Yeshua's statement also points to a deeper truth: true worship is not defined by location or ethnicity, as worship in a particular geographical location, but by knowing the true God through His revealed Word. While the Samaritans were ignorant of the fullness of God's revelation, Yeshua, as the Messiah, was the fulfillment of that revelation, and through Him, both Jews and Samaritans could come to know God in spirit and truth to worship him.

The woman's meeting with Yeshua, who declared himself the Messiah, led her to believe in him, and her testimony caused many in her town to do the same—showing that faith in Christ brings true knowledge of God and their salvation.

Yeshua did not claim to be God by saying "I am"; he was simply responding to the woman's question about the Messiah's coming, that the Messiah was already in her midst and speaking with her.


More to share-----------later

 

[Archie]

More good news to share that Yeshua is not God and still not God.

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John 4:10 and 26 – Epistrophe I am – The woman at the well​

The scripture:

(Joh 4:7) A Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

(Joh 4:8) This happened while his followers were in town buying some food.

(Joh 4:9) The woman answered, "I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!" (Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

(Joh 4:10) Jesus answered, "You don't know what God can give you. And you don't know who I am, the one who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water."

(Joh 4:11) The woman said, "Sir, where will you get that living water? The well is very deep, and you have nothing to get water with.

(Joh 4:12) Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? He is the one who gave us this well. He drank from it himself, and his sons and all his animals drank from it too."

(Joh 4:13) Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

(Joh 4:14) But anyone who drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside them. It will bring them eternal life."

(Joh 4:15) The woman said to Jesus, "Sir, give me this water. Then I will never be thirsty again and won't have to come back here to get more water."

(Joh 4:16) Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back."

(Joh 4:17) The woman answered, "But I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.

(Joh 4:18) That's because, although you have had five husbands, the man you live with now is not your husband. That much was the truth."

(Joh 4:19) The woman said, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.

(Joh 4:20) Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people must worship."

(Joh 4:21) Jesus said, "Believe me, woman! The time is coming when you will not have to be in Jerusalem or on this mountain to worship the Father.

(Joh 4:22) You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews.

(Joh 4:23) But the time is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. In fact, that time is now here. And these are the kind of people the Father wants to be his worshipers.

(Joh 4:24) God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

(Joh 4:25) The woman said, "I know that the Messiah is coming." (He is the one called Christ.) "When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

(Joh 4:26) Then Jesus said, "He is talking to you now—I am the Messiah."(ERV)

The setting:

Yeshua sat alone by Jacob’s well after his disciples left for food, waiting for a Samaritan woman. God intended to send a message of salvation to Samaria through her.

The conversation:

When the woman arrived at the well, Yeshua asked her for water to fulfil God's will and to hydrate. She hesitated, noticing he was Judean, since Judeans and Samaritans typically did not associate. She asked why he sought water from her. Yeshua explained that, if she understood who he was—the Messiah—she would have requested living water for eternal life. The woman did not grasp his meaning. Yeshua then told her to bring her husband, though he already knew (from his Father) she was unmarried and living with a man, leading her to suggest he was a prophet.

The takeaway:

The Samaritans, as this woman is one, while believing in the one true God, had a limited understanding of Him because they only accepted the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) as authoritative and rejected the prophetic and historical books. This led to a form of worship that lacked the full revelation of God's character and his will found in the complete Hebrew Scriptures.

In contrast, the Jews possessed the full canon of the Old Testament, which included the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, providing a more comprehensive understanding of God and His covenant promises. Yeshua affirmed that the Jews had been entrusted with the oracles of God, giving them a unique role in preserving divine revelation. The phrase "salvation is from the Jews" does not imply that salvation is exclusive to ethnic Jews, but rather that the Messiah, the source of salvation, would come from the Jewish people and that the message of salvation was first revealed through them. This is supported by Old Testament prophecies and the historical context of God's covenant with Israel.

Yeshua's statement also points to a deeper truth: true worship is not defined by location or ethnicity, as worship in a particular geographical location, but by knowing the true God through His revealed Word. While the Samaritans were ignorant of the fullness of God's revelation, Yeshua, as the Messiah, was the fulfillment of that revelation, and through Him, both Jews and Samaritans could come to know God in spirit and truth to worship him.

The woman's meeting with Yeshua, who declared himself the Messiah, led her to believe in him, and her testimony caused many in her town to do the same—showing that faith in Christ brings true knowledge of God and their salvation.

Yeshua did not claim to be God by saying "I am"; he was simply responding to the woman's question about the Messiah's coming, that the Messiah was already in her midst and speaking with her.


More to share-----------later

"A fool has no delight in understanding,
But in expressing his own heart."
Proverbs 18:2

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
John 1:1-5

 

[JustMe]

"A fool has no delight in understanding,
But in expressing his own heart."
Proverbs 18:2

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
John 1:1-5

I see you are not a fan of Yeshua the Messiah, Son of God and Son of Man. Oh well, there are many, many like you. At least you show it to my face even though it's out ignorance and a waste of your time. Unless of course, you truly want to be 'Christian' apologetic and can write a few words or commentary to demonstrate your eagerness into why the scripture you presented is so personally special to you that negates Yeshua being the Messiah, the Son of God and the Son of Man.

I will get eventually get to your scripture later.

 

[Archie]

I see you are not a fan of Yeshua the Messiah, Son of God and Son of Man. Oh well, there are many, many like you. At least you show it to my face even though it's out ignorance and a waste of your time. Unless of course, you truly want to be 'Christian' apologetic and can write a few words or commentary to demonstrate your eagerness into why the scripture you presented is so personally special to you that negates Yeshua being the Messiah, the Son of God and the Son of Man.

I will get eventually get to your scripture later.

I see you are not a fan of Yeshua the Messiah, Son of God and Son of Man. Oh well, there are many, many like you. At least you show it to my face even though it's out ignorance and a waste of your time. Unless of course, you truly want to be 'Christian' apologetic and can write a few words or commentary to demonstrate your eagerness into why the scripture you presented is so personally special to you that negates Yeshua being the Messiah, the Son of God and the Son of Man.

I will get eventually get to your scripture later.

You are correct, I am no fan of the Jesus which you preach. You preach a different Jesus, and a different gospel, which in fact, is no Gospel at all, but a doctrine of demons.

Since no one here has the wisdom or the courage to boot you from the site, I will simply place you on ignore.

The divinity of God the Son is non negotiable. If Jehovah's Witness nonsense is what your selling, you've come knocking on the wrong door.

 

[JustMe]

You are correct, I am no fan of the Jesus which you preach. You preach a different Jesus, and a different gospel, which in fact, is no Gospel at all, but a doctrine of demons.

Since no one here has the wisdom or the courage to boot you from the site, I will simply place you on ignore.

The divinity of God the Son is non negotiable. If Jehovah's Witness nonsense is what your selling, you've come knocking on the wrong door.

So can I add evasiveness, arrogance and presumptuousness to your growing list of character traits.

So you have now wisdom and courage according to you.....

You say you have me on ignore, then ignore me and go away. You are doing both of us a favor.

Bye...

 

[JustMe]

This is the other side teaching of the Woman at the well, where the spiritual water that is drank is replaced by spiritual bread, eaten for salvation. Yeshua is the Messiah and the conduit to God, and written in another 'I am' section of scripture... as the way...

John 6:35, 48 and 51– Anaphoric I am - the bread that gives life​

The scripture:

(Joh 6:32) Jesus said, "I can assure you that Moses was not the one who gave your people bread from heaven. But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

(Joh 6:33) God's bread is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

(Joh 6:34) The people said, "Sir, from now on give us bread like that."

(Joh 6:35) Then Jesus said, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

(Joh 6:36) I told you before that you have seen me, and still you don't believe.

(Joh 6:37) The Father gives me my people. Every one of them will come to me. I will always accept them.

(Joh 6:38) I came down from heaven to do what God wants, not what I want.

(Joh 6:39) I must not lose anyone God has given me. But I must raise them up on the last day. This is what the one who sent me wants me to do.

(Joh 6:40) Everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life. I will raise them up on the last day. This is what my Father wants."

(Joh 6:41) Some Jews began to complain about Jesus because he said, "I am the bread that comes down from heaven."

(Joh 6:42) They said, "This is Jesus. We know his father and mother. He is only Joseph's son. How can he say, 'I came down from heaven'?"

(Joh 6:43) But Jesus said, "Stop complaining to each other.

(Joh 6:44) The Father is the one who sent me, and he is the one who brings people to me. I will raise them up on the last day. Anyone the Father does not bring to me cannot come to me.

(Joh 6:45) It is written in the prophets: 'God will teach them all.' People listen to the Father and learn from him. They are the ones who come to me.

(Joh 6:46) I don't mean that there is anyone who has seen the Father. The only one who has ever seen the Father is the one who came from God. He has seen the Father.

(Joh 6:47) "I can assure you that anyone who believes has eternal life.

(Joh 6:48) I am the bread that gives life.

(Joh 6:49) Your ancestors ate the manna God gave them in the desert, but it didn't keep them from dying.

(Joh 6:50) Here is the bread that comes down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will never die.

(Joh 6:51) I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my body. I will give my body so that the people in the world can have life."

(Joh 6:52) Then the Jews began to argue among themselves. They said, "How can this man give us his body to eat?"

(Joh 6:53) Jesus said, "Believe me when I say that you must eat the body of the Son of Man, and you must drink his blood. If you don't do this, you have no real life.

(Joh 6:54) Those who eat my body and drink my blood have eternal life. I will raise them up on the last day.

(Joh 6:55) My body is true food, and my blood is true drink.

(Joh 6:56) Those who eat my body and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

(Joh 6:57) "The Father sent me. He lives, and I live because of him. So everyone who eats me will live because of me.

(Joh 6:58) I am not like the bread that your ancestors ate. They ate that bread, but they still died. I am the bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever."

Analysis and commentary:

Yeshua said I am the bread that gives life not as Moses and the people in the desert were given manna or bread from above by the Father of Yeshua, who is God.

Yeshua gives spiritual bread of/for eternal life, that once eaten (belief and faith) will bring eternal life. Like the living waters that also bring eternal life. One has to eat and drink the gift of God, have belief and faith in Yeshua, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Messiah of God. This is done to experience or see Yeshua and the Father both living in the human spirit. All three are in one another.

God, the Father chooses his people to believe in his Son, and not the Son himself.

The Son accepts all of the Father’s choices of human spirits that come to his Son, and his Son will raise them all on the ‘last day.’

The rock in the desert was Christ, the Messiah, who brought life; the ‘rock’ that provided living waters to live, forever. If one believed that the rock would provide water for life of course.

Yeshua said emphatically he is the bread or gateway of and to eternal life for us, because he is the Son of God, and the Messiah, not his Father who is God. His Father is the source of life who then gives us this gift of eternal life through the ‘body and blood’ of his Son as his spirit and life.

There is no scripture saying otherwise, and no scripture saying he is the source of eternal life or God either. Yeshua, the Messiah is the conduit spirit by which the Father YHWH will accept us.

Yeshua, the Messiah, is regarded as the divine intermediary through whom the Father, YHWH, establishes and maintains a relationship with humanity. Yeshua is described as the flesh that became the word of or for God, embodying YHWH's presence within him and his word and message on Earth.

As the Son of God, Yeshua was created and conceived by the Spirit of God and born of a virgin, fulfilling the prophecy of the miraculous promised Messiah.

In verse 38 where it says that Yeshua .came down from heaven. to do God’s will, he did not mean he literally came down from heaven. In fact he went to heaven for the first time after his resurrection. This ‘coming down from heaven’ expression is an idiom, a metaphor for Yeshua being created by God on earth who himself ‘came down’ from his residence in heaven.

Yeshua’s mission included revealing and doing the Father's will, bringing salvation via the gospel, and serving as the atoning sacrifice for sins through His death and resurrection to immortality. The name Yeshua means "YHWH is Salvation," emphasizing His role as the means by which divine forgiveness and reconciliation are made possible and that Yeshua himself is not salvation in himself. Believers are taught that salvation comes through faith in Yeshua’s sacrifice, and that He is the only way to the Father, who is then salvation and true eternal life, as Yeshua Himself declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me".

Yeshua functions as the essential conduit through whom the Father accepts humanity, not only through His atoning death but also through His ongoing intercession and the indwelling of the Spirit of God.

 

[JustMe]

John 8:12 and 9: 5– Anaphoric I am - the light of the world​

This subject is very important as it not only implicates many scripture and explains them, it also reveals who is Yeshua and true believers in him, in clarity. And that he can never be God, as his Father.

The scripture:

(Joh 8:12) Later, Jesus talked to the people again. He said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never live in darkness. They will have the light that gives life."

(Joh 8:13) But the Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say that these things are true. So we cannot accept what you say."

(Joh 8:14) Jesus answered, "Yes, I am saying these things about myself. But people can believe what I say, because I know where I came from. And I know where I am going. But you don't know where I came from or where I am going.

(Joh 8:15) You judge me the way people judge other people. I don't judge anyone.

(Joh 8:16) But if I judge, my judging is true, because when I judge I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me.

(Joh 8:17) Your own law says that when two witnesses say the same thing, you must accept what they say.

(Joh 8:18) I am one of the witnesses who speaks about myself. And the Father who sent me is my other witness."

(Joh 8:19) The people asked, "Where is your father?" Jesus answered, "You don't know me or my Father. But if you knew me, you would know my Father too." (ERV)



(Isa 42:1) "Here is my servant, the one I support. He is the one I have chosen, and I am very pleased with him. I have filled him with my Spirit, and he will bring justice to the nations.

(Isa 42:2) He will not cry out or shout or try to make himself heard in the streets.

(Isa 42:3) He will not break even a crushed reed. He will not put out even the weakest flame. He will bring true justice.

(Isa 42:4) He will not grow weak or give up until he has brought justice to the world. And people in faraway places will hope to receive his teachings."

(Isa 42:5) The LORD, the true God, said these things. (He created the sky and spread it out over the earth. He formed the earth and everything it produced. He breathes life into all the people on earth. He gives a spirit to everyone who walks on the earth.)

(Isa 42:6) "I, the LORD, was right to call you. I will hold your hand and protect you. You will be the sign of my agreement with the people. You will be a light for the other nations.

(Isa 42:7) You will make the blind able to see. You will free those who are held as captives. You will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.(ERV)


(Joh 9:4) While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the one who sent me. The night is coming, and no one can work at night.

(Joh 9:5) While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

(Joh 9:6) After Jesus said this, he spit on the dirt, made some mud and put it on the man's eyes.

(Joh 9:7) Jesus told him, "Go and wash in Siloam pool." (Siloam means "Sent.") So the man went to the pool, washed and came back. He was now able to see.

(Joh 9:8) His neighbors and some others who had seen him begging said, "Look! Is this the same man who always sits and begs?"

(Joh 9:9) Some people said, "Yes! He is the one." But others said, "No, he can't be the same man. He only looks like him." So the man himself said, "I am that same man."(ERV)

Yeshua was walking in public area with his disciples and then came upon a blind man. Notice the once blind man also says I am….he is not God either, and nor is the Son of God.

Look at the first set of scripture in Chapter 8:12-19, and read all the expressions of I am. And it’s not just one, “I am: the light,” either. Are we then to conclude that all these I am expressions, and especially because of their number, prove Yeshua is God. Quite impossible and ridiculous to even discuss such a notion. And this is what the worshippers of the expression I AM would want you to believe.

The expression Yeshua uses. “ I am the light of the world” is very significant and used in other parts of the gospels and especially in the very contentious area in John’ s gospel report – in John 1:4 -5 and 7-9. Other chapter of John include 3:19-21, 5:35 and 12:35 -36 and 46.

Matt 4:16 and Luke 1:79 and 2:32 are other areas of scripture concerning “the light” that Yeshua symbolized to the world.

Isaiah Chapter 42 is also important to collect the main subject’s outer and original context concerning the light of life.

In the first Chapter of John’s gospel record, the logos, one of the two core intrinsic attributes of God is his divine self-expression of life, in his realm, and our human realm of living. The text first speaks to the logos creating all things into existence. It speaks of Genesis, the logos created the light to bring physical life, eventually, into the darkness of a void or barren lifeless earth, as other planets. The earth was recreated or regenerated into a new livable planet of green stuff, plants, trees and grass. It became populated with animals and birds and reptiles and bugs etc. . God’s purpose was to create humankind to inhabit this new life of the planet. Because of fallen man, God’s logos created a special human being to allow God to directly express himself in this world of fallen mankind inside this man, to recreate or regenerate mankind into new eternal life, into the light, away from darkness and eventual death.

So God’s logos also became the logos of God in and as a man, called Yeshua.

Yeshua became the light of the world for one’s salvation and eternal life.

Since Yeshua is no longer present in the world (John 9:5), believers in Christ now embody the logos and serve as the light and salt of the earth, possessing God's logos through Christ's spirit within them, as Yeshua first did whilst on this earth and still does today, as the perfect image of the Father.

People with the spirit of Christ reflect God's nature and divine logos, as Yeshua did, though to a lesser extent and of a poorer imperfect image and quality. This divine presence, the logos, fills those who love God, and through His Son, God inspires them inwardly and speaks to their heart. Their loving actions of mind and body demonstrate the influence of God's word or logos in their lives.



As Yeshua possesses the logos of God, believers also do, and both parties are not God either. And prefacing oneself with the words 'I am' won't make one, the God the Father, either.