<Li> I am the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14: 6) </Li> <Li> I am the Vine (John 15: 1, 5) </Li> <P> It is also used without a predicate nominative, which is not very common in Koine Greek, thus some interpret it as Jesus' own self - declaration as God . In John 8: 24 Jesus states: "For unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins", and later the crowd attempts to stone Jesus in response to his statement in John 8: 58: "Before Abraham was, I am .". Many other translations including the ASV have rendered John 8: 24 as something like "...For unless you believe that I am (he), you will die in your sins .". Some consider the phrase in John 8: 58 to be grammatically different from that in John 8: 24, as the copulative verb can be used with any predicative expression and not only a predicate nominative, such as in "ὅπου εἰμὶ ἐγὼ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἦτε" ("where I am, you also may be") in John 14: 3 . "πρὶν Ἀβραὰμ γενέσθαι" ("before Abraham was") can be taken as a predicative prepositional phrase, thus "ἐγώ εἰμὶ" ("I am") in John 8: 58 does not grammatically require a predicate nominative, however it is rather unusual for a present tense verb to be used with a temporal adverb like πρὶν in a declarative statement, though there are rare exceptions outside the New Testament . Thus explanations of John 8: 58 generally depend on theology and not Greek grammar . </P> <P> ἐγώ εἰμι also occurs without an explicit or implicit predicate nominative in the Septuagint, but instead either with a prepositional phrase such as in "μὴ ἀντὶ θεοῦ ἐγώ εἰμι ..." ("Am I in place of God ...") Gen 30: 2, or with a predicative clause such as in "πάροικος καὶ παρεπίδημος ἐγώ εἰμι μεθ' ὑμῶν" ("As a foreigner and a sojourner I am with you") in Gen 23: 4, or with the idiomatic meaning It is I such as in "καὶ εἶπεν Ἰωαβ ἀκούω ἐγώ εἰμι" ("And Joab said: I hear; it is I .") in 2 Sam 20: 17 . </P>

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