John 8:58
8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, 1 before Abraham came into existence, 2 I am!” 31 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
2 tn Grk “before Abraham was.”
3 sn I am! is an explicit claim to deity. Although each occurrence of the phrase “I am” in the Fourth Gospel needs to be examined individually in context to see if an association with Exod 3:14 is present, it seems clear that this is the case here (as the response of the Jewish authorities in the following verse shows).
