So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I AM." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them. So when He said to them, "I AM," they drew back and fell to the ground. John 18:4-6
'YAHWEH comes from the Hebrew verb "to be" and is the special name that God revealed to Moses at the burning bush. "And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM; and He said, thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you... this is My eternal name, and this is how I am to be recalled for all generations'" (Exodus 3:14-15). Therefore, YAHWEH declares God's absolute being - the source of everything, without beginning and without end.
The LORD who revealed Himself as YAHWEH in the Old Testament is revealed as Yeshua (Jesus) in the New Testament. Jesus shares the same attributes as YAHWEH and clearly claims to be YAHWEH. In John 8:56-9, Jesus presents himself as the "I AM." When challenged by some Jewish leaders regarding His claim of seeing Abraham (who lived some 2000 years earlier), Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM." Those Jewish leaders understood that Jesus was claiming to be YAHWEH.'
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