The Final “I Am”: Understanding Jesus’s Divine Authority
Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus made bold, unmistakable claims about His identity—claims that set Him apart from every other religious teacher in history. These “I Am” statements, recorded in the Gospel of John, weren’t just poetic metaphors or spiritual slogans. They were declarations of divinity. They pointed back to Exodus 3:14, when God told Moses His name: “I Am who I Am.” But there’s one final, often overlooked “I Am” moment—a statement so powerful it literally knocked an army to the ground. And it happened not in the temple or on a mountaintop, but in a dark garden on the eve of the
