▪︎ John 18:4-5 – Jesus also used the same phrase (ἐγώ εἰμί, “I am”) when the soldiers came for him at Gethsemane, but no one in the crowd noticed.
▪︎ John 18:6-8 – the account continues by telling them repeatedly saying “I am” … They all fell backwards to the ground!
▪︎ LXX, Greek OT, (ἐγώ εἰμί, “I am”) – Exod 3:14; Exod 6:6, 7 (full text – Exod 6:1-8
1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.” 2God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD; 3and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them. 4“I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. 5“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. 6“Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7‘Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8‘I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.’”
). Moses was special, God Himself made Himself known to him this way.▪︎ Jesus Christ was from the beginning, and is, and is the future, the Alpha and the Omega – Rev 11:16-17; Micah 5:2; Rev 1:8;