gadar perets
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The high priest asked Yeshua if he was “the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed”. Yeshua answered, “I am” (the Messiah, the Son of the blessed - Son of God). He was not saying he was the “I AM”. He was not God. Their claims of blasphemy were false.Even in Mark 14:61-64, it becomes clear that the reason why Jesus was worthy of crucifixion in their sight was because He was a blasphemer in their opinion: He claimed to be God. Now if He was not God, then He was truly crucified for the sin of blasphemy and therefore He died for His own sins and therefore His death would not have been sufficient to pay for ours: but since He is the God who created us, His infinite Person was able (and enough) to absorb the sin of the world and still have enough life left over to be raised from the dead.
BTW, if he was God, he could not die for YHWH (God) is immortal, eternal and everlasting. Yeshua was 100% dead with absolutely no life in him until his Father raised him from the dead.