“The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.”
Then Jesus declared, 'I, the one speaking to you—I am he.' — this is the first explicit I am he (ego eimi) in John's Gospel, the supreme Johannine revelation. The woman's Messianic hope is immediately fulfilled in present encounter. The dramatic simplicity—no predicate, just ego eimi—echoes the divine name (Exodus 3:14) and the prophet Deutero-Isaiah's self-presentation (Isaiah 43:10, 25).
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