Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” Then the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.” They said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Why do I speak to you at all? I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.” They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me. And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” As he was saying these things, many believed in him. (John 8:21-30, NRSV)
“for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.” This is an interesting statement which we read and understand one way thanks to the translators…
And the response is equally interesting, “Who are you?” Now why would the Jews ask this question when Jesus said, “for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he?”
They were asking “Who are you?” Because Jesus said “for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am.” You see in the Greek there is nothing that says he after Jesus says ἐγώ εἰμι (I am). And ἐγώ εἰμι is what God says to Moses when Moses asks Him what he should tell people when they ask who sent him. ἐγώ εἰμι is I am and that is the name of God.
Jesus said “You will die in your sins if you do not believe I am God!”
So do you?
And if you do what are you doing about it?
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