When Jesus was with his disciples, he asked them who are the people saying the Son of man is? When they answered giving him a various of incorrect answers, He said to them: “
You, though, who do you say
I am?” (
ego eimi) Matthew 16:15
Simon Peter answered: “
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 16:16) Jesus then commends Peter for the correct and accurate answer by responding to him “Happy you are, Simon son of Joʹnah, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you,
but my Father in the heavens did.” (Matthew 16:17)
Peter was not the only one that properly identifies the (
ego eimi) but the Apostle Paul also identifies about the one who stood by him. The Apostle Paul also gives witness about the
ego'eimi . "For there stood by me this night
the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve," (
Acts 27:23)
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