Jesus 'I AM' Statements

We are often searching for answers to find out who Jesus was or what His teachings really meant. John includes eight different situations in which Jesus gives what are known as the “I Am” statements. Instead of continuing to simply wonder about who Jesus is, we can take an in depth look into the “I Am” statements that Jesus made while He was here on earth. Conclusions can be drawn by looking at the statements Jesus makes and looking into what they mean. He uses an emphatic “I Am” to bring out important teachings about his person. Most of these statements are known by Christians.

John also reveals Christ’s identity, “In the beginning the Word (logos) already existed. He was with God, and he was God…He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make. Life itself was in him and this life gives light to everyone.” (John 1:1, 3-4)

The bread in this scene represents both life and

For instance, Coke states the dwelling or remaining in Christ is an expression that denotes, “the closest union of affections and interests…it signifies that he who truly believes on Christ, is so united to him, as to be a member of his body, and consequently a partaker with him of his life, and, if faithful unto death, of his glory, and of all the happiness which he himself enjoys, or is able to communicate.” Also speaking of the fellowship aspect, W. Hall Harris III reverberates a similar conclusion based on the words used in verse 54. Despite the literal meaning of the word trwvgwn being to “eat noisily, often used of animals (“gnaw,” “nibble,” “munch”). When used with reference to people, it often has the idea of enjoyment (Matt 24:38) and close comradeship.” Both these commentators explain how even a literal meaning of a word kept in context would not mean physical eating but fellowship. Fifth, Donald C. Flemming states in his commentary “Many of the people who followed Jesus found his teaching about the bread of life hard to understand. Jesus told them that if they had difficulty believing this, they would be

By calling Jesus ‘the Word,’ John calls him the embodiment of all God’s revelation in the Scriptures and thus declares that only those who accept Jesus honor the law, fully (1:17). Jewish

When Jesus taught the Samaritan woman at the well, it was the first time he plainly declared his divinity and it was the first instance that John tells us that Jesus gave an aretology statement. This story comes right after John the Baptist testifies of Christ. He says that “I am not” and it is Jesus who is the “I am”.

Jesus was declared to be the Mighty God and Everlasting Father long before he was ever conceived in the womb of Mary. The Everlasting Father became the child and son born in the manger. Therefore Jesus truly is Immanuel, God with us. Jesus is Almighty God become a man.

Jesus answered the disciples and said He was only sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then the woman came and worshiped Him, crying out in deep prayer for help from Jesus. Jesus then spoke to her and told her that it is not meet to take the Jews bread and cast it to the Gentiles. She acknowledged that Jesus spoke the truth, but said Even the Gentiles eat of the Master’s table.

The first claim made by Jesus is that he is the son of God. He says in Matthew 11:27, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” (NIV) In this verse he says that God is his father and his authority comes from God.

The central theme of the Book of John is “Jesus is the divine Son of God who reveals the Father, providing eternal life to all who believe in him” (Strauss, 2011, 6749). John highly emphasizes Jesus’ identity by providing extensive reports of Jesus’

If a person took eating and drinking Christ’s body literal, “the passage would be cannibalistic and repulsive, thus requiring a spiritual understanding of it. It is a metaphorical reference to the soul-saving benefit procured on behalf of the human family by Christ's atoning death on the cross and the shedding of his blood. The eating and drinking refer to the soul's proper appropriation of that benefit. Constable also so writes, “Jesus introduced a new metaphor for believing on Him, namely, eating His flesh. The following pericope is highly metaphorical.” Other commentators focus on the fact that even if a person did “even eat my flesh and drink my blood, this would not avail for your salvation. These words contain a caution that the hearers should not understand his words in the strict literal sense, as if his body were really Bread, and as if his flesh and blood were really to be eaten and drank.” Adam Clarke states, “It is easy to dismiss the literal sense of this by the clearer statement that “the flesh profit it

This was and is no small statement. Part of every religion is that each believer believes that their faith is the way. Indeed, Christ tells Christians he is the way, the truth and the light. For true partnerships between religions to take place there must be a willingness to question and explore the deepest set of beliefs in each faith. In the book, he refers to the willingness of his Christian friends Alice and Roy Eckardt to openly challenge the absolute truths of Christianity to the point of expulsion. It is this bravery to explore that spurs him on to write about concepts such as covenantal pluralism. Greenberg was challenging Jewish belief to the divine right as the people of God, the chosen Israelites. He tells us how that first covenant

God and Jesus are not the same in terms of identity. Jesus the Son and God the Father are the same being. Even still, Jesus himself has His own identity. The Bible explains that God is three in one in Matthew 28:18-20. He is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They each have different personalities and identities, yet they still form one being. God the Father plays a role in which He oversees or generates many different things. If God and Jesus were truly the same all around, then the scripture John 3:16 would be in vain. God the Father and God the Son (Jesus) are actually two different people, but of the same essence. Therefore, Jesus (the Son) did not pray to Himself in the garden of Gethsemane. He prayed to God the Father

The first mention of an I am in John comes in chapter 6. “Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.’” (John 6:35). Another instance relating to bread happens in John 6, when Jesus feeds the 5,000. This occurrence draws a parallel to Exodus 16, when God also miraculously fed thousands of his followers with manna and quail. That passage shows

Throughout the Gospel of John, the beloved disciple John, gives many evidences and proofs that Jesus Christ is indeed who He always said He is—the very Son of God. One of these evidences would be the seven “I Am” statements, which are: I am the Bread of Life, I am the Light of the World, I am the Door, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the Resurrection and Life, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and I am the True Vine. The “I Am” statements are extremely significant concerning the deity of Christ because the tense of the statement says that Jesus always was, and will always. He has no beginning and will have no end. This also refers to the Old Testament passage in Exodus 3:14 when God tells Moses, “I Am that I Am.”