ἀποθανεῖσθε. This is the emphatic word here, not ἐν τ. ἁμαρτ., as in John 8:21 The plural expresses the separate sins of each. “No reckoning made, but sent to your account with all your imperfections on your head.” But the sentence is not irreversible; it is pronounced conditionally, unless ye believe. Comp. John 1:12; John 3:15-18; John 6:40.

ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι. That I am, implying the self-existence of Divinity. Here and in John 8:24; John 8:28; John 8:58; John 13:19, the context supplies no predicate; elsewhere (John 4:26; John 9:9; John 18:5-6; John 18:8) it does. I AM is the great Name, which every Jew understood; Exodus 3:14; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:10.

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