ye shall die in your sins Here -die" is emphatic, not -sin" as in John 8:21. Moreover the plural is here correct; it is no longer the state of sin generally, but the separate sins of each that are spoken of. Before it was -in your sinshall ye die;" here it is -ye shall diein your sins."

for if ye believe not This is the only way in which they can be delivered faith in Him. Comp. John 1:12; John 3:15-18; John 6:40.

that I am he Better, that I am. It not merely means -that I am the Messiah," but is the great name, which every Jew at once understood, I AM. Comp. John 8:28; John 8:58, John 13:19; John 18:5; Exodus 3:14; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:10.

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