[B-Greek] John 1:18b question (and John 1:8)

David McKay david.mckay at ozemail.com.au
Tue Dec 23 17:43:48 EST 2003


Tony said:
One cannot escape the violent reaction of Jesus' audience who
heard him utter the words that before Abraham existed EGW EIMI (John 8:58)
and the following verse states that people picked up stones to kill him.
(John 8:59) EGW EIMI certainly didn't mean to them "It's me" because there
would be nothing blasphemous about that. John 10:33 makes it clear that
Jesus' opponents took those words as a claim to him being Deity.


I agree that EGW EIMI here doesn't mean "It's me" but isn't the cause of
their anger the fact that he says he was living before Abraham, and not the
particular Greek construction he uses to says this?

They could have taken this assertion to be a claim to deity, without seeing
it as an echo of the LXX of Exodus, couldn't they?

David McKay
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