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For except ye believe (ean gar mē pisteusēte). Negative condition of third class with ean mē and ingressive aorist active subjunctive of pisteuō, “For unless ye come to believe.”
That I am he (hoti egō eimi). Indirect discourse, but with no word in the predicate after the copula eimi. Jesus can mean either “that I am from above” (Joh 8:23), “that I am the one sent from the Father or the Messiah” (Joh 7:18, Joh 7:28), “that I am the Light of the World” (Joh 8:12), “that I am the Deliverer from the bondage of sin” (Joh 8:28, Joh 8:31., and Joh 8:36), “that I am” without supplying a predicate in the absolute sense as the Jews (Deu 32:39) used the language of Jehovah (cf. Isa 43:10 where the very words occur hina pisteusēte-hoti egō eimi). The phrase egō eimi occurs three times here (Joh 8:24, Joh 8:28, Joh 8:58) and also in Joh 13:19. Jesus seems to claim absolute divine being as in Joh 8:58.