Where in the Bible is 'I am'?

Answer 1

God first said this at Genesis 6:13-- "After that God said to Noah: "The end of all flesh has come before me, because the earth is full of violence as a result of them; and here I ambringing them to ruin together with the earth".

Abraham first said this at Genesis 22:1--"Now after these things it came about that the [true] God put Abraham to the test. Accordingly he said to him: "Abraham!" to which he said: "Here I am!"

There are too many other locations to place them all here.

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Answer 2

{1 Corinthians 15:10} But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Answer # 1:

Exodus 3:14: "...God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

Answer # 2:

Scholars and theologians also have pointed out that Christ took the Name spoken to Moses at the burning bush and applied it to himself:

So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM." So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area. John 8:57-59 NAB.

Here the picking up of stones to throw at Jesus indicates that they heard him speak the Divine Name as revealed to Moses and that he had applied it to himself; i.e.

Jewish piety had long forbidden the pronouncing of the sacred name, YHWH [as revealed to Moses at Mt. Sinai]. So, when Jesus is made to say "I am," it is the very name of God he is uttering. The implication is that he himself is God. He may allow that sacred name to pass from his lips, because he is the one whom the name designates. As Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible speaks the divine name, so Christ may speak that name. (Kysar 1993, p. 48)

REFERENCES

Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. The New American Bible, (Iowa Falls: IA, World Bible Publishers, Inc. 1991).

Kysar, R. John The Maverick Gospel - Revised Edition, (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993).

Answer 3

The word "am" only accompanies the pronoun "I"

In the King James version the word - am - appears 874 times. It can be presumed that, although occasionally it appears in the questioning form "am I...?", it generally follows the word "I".

These are far too many to list here.

In Genesis alone the phrase - I am - appears 30 times and the phrase - am I - appears 13 times.

Answer 4

A:In the earlier gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus did not claim to be God. However, John's Gospel has Jesus make that claim several times, at least indirectly, when he says, "I am."

The Greek translation of the name of the Jewish God was equivalent to 'I am', so when we see Jesus answer the priests by saying "I am", we can understand why John says that they fell over backwards in astonishment. This is subtlety on the part of John's Gospel, which has the priests and scribes regard Jesus as committing blasphemy.

Answer 5

Hope the information below from The Bible answers the (asker's) question!

• "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" [John 8:58]

• Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. [John 14:6]

The above are two verses from the New Testament often quoted by those who says Jesus claimed to be God - by simply using word in the above quotes in his language which was translated to "I am" by translators.

The ambiguity and the deliberate playing with words in the above two verses when set against the below cannot be more obvious.

1. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent [John 17:3].
2. "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one [Mark 12:29].

Answer 6

The first occurence is here:

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"

Answer 7

It is used more than once and in different parts of the bible. For example, when Moses sees the burning bush, he asks God who he is. God replys,"I am."

Answer 8

God calls Himself 'I am' in Exodus 3:14 (NKJV)

And God said to Moses, "I am who I am." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Answer 9

is there a verse in the bible that the only words Jesus says is, I am