Yohanes 8:58

8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  before Abraham came into existence, ²  I am!” ³ 

Yohanes 9:10

9:10 So they asked him, ⁴  “How then were you made to see?” ⁵ 

Yohanes 9:23

9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ⁶  ask him.”) ⁷ 

Yohanes 12:39

12:39 For this reason they could not believe, ⁸  because again Isaiah said,

Yohanes 12:45

12:45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. ⁹ 

[8:58]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[8:58]  ² tn Grk “before Abraham was.”

[8:58]  ³ sn I am! is an explicit claim to deity. Although each occurrence of the phrase “I am” in the Fourth Gospel needs to be examined individually in context to see if an association with Exod 3:14 is present, it seems clear that this is the case here (as the response of the Jewish authorities in the following verse shows).

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “So they were saying to him.”

[9:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “How then were your eyes opened” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).

[9:23]  ⁶ tn Or “he is of age.”

[9:23]  ⁷ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author explaining the parents’ response.

[12:39]  ⁸ sn The author explicitly states here that Jesus’ Jewish opponents could not believe, and quotes Isa 6:10 to show that God had in fact blinded their eyes and hardened their heart. This OT passage was used elsewhere in the NT to explain Jewish unbelief: Paul’s final words in Acts (28:26-27) are a quotation of this same passage, which he uses to explain why the Jewish people have not accepted the gospel he has preached. A similar passage (Isa 29:10) is quoted in a similar context in Rom 11:8.

[12:45]  ⁹ sn Cf. John 1:18 and 14:9.