I AM — the Ego Eimi Declarations
אֲנִי הוּא
'Before Abraham was, I AM' — Yeshua's seven pictured I AMs and the absolute claim behind them.
Isaiah's Ani Hu — 'I am He' — is God's courtroom self-declaration; John's Gospel places the same words on Yeshua's lips, both with pictures (bread, light, shepherd, vine, door) and naked (8:58; 18:6). The stones picked up and the soldiers falling backward show that every hearer understood the claim.
First occurrence
John 6:35 — 'I am the Bread of Life'
Key passages
John 8:12 — Light of the World
John 10:11 — The Good Shepherd
John 11:25 — The Resurrection and the Life
John 14:6 — The Way, the Truth, and the Life
John 8:58 — 'Before Abraham was, I AM' — and they took up stones
John 18:6 — At the arrest: 'I AM' — and they fell to the ground
Isa 41:4 — 'I YHVH, the first and with the last: Ani Hu'
In the Greek Scriptures
Ἐγώ εἰμι