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And he confessed (kai hōmologēsen). The continued paratactic use of kai (and) and the first aorist active indicative of homologeō, old verb from homologos (homon, legō, to say the same thing), to confess, in the Synoptics (Mat 10:32) as here.
And denied not (kai ouk ērnēsato). Negative statement of same thing in Johannine fashion, first aorist middle indicative of arneomai, another Synoptic and Pauline word (Mat 10:33; 2Ti 2:12). He did not contradict or refuse to say who he was.
And he confessed (kai hōmologēsen). Thoroughly Johannine again in the paratactic repetition.
I am not the Christ (Egō ouk eimi ho Christos). Direct quotation again with recitative hoti before it like our modern quotation marks. “I am not the Messiah,” he means by ho Christos (the Anointed One). Evidently it was not a new question as Luke had already shown (Luk 3:15).