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OET (OET-LV) Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) said to_them:
Truly, truly, I_am_saying to_you_all, before Abraʼam to_become, I am.
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua answered, “I can assure you that I am[fn] before Abraham ever existed.”
8:58 This awkward English is necessary to catch the play on words, because ‘I am’ is the meaning of Yahweh, the name of God.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν
truly truly ˱I˲_/am/_saying ˱to˲_you_all
Jesus uses this phrase to emphasize the truth of the statement that follows. See how you translated this phrase in 1:51.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐγὼ εἰμί
I am
See how you translated I am verse 24 and also see the discussion of this phrase in the General Notes for this chapter.
8:58 before Abraham was even born, I Am! Jesus’ life spans the past from before creation (1:1-2) and sweeps beyond the present into eternity.
• I Am: This title is reminiscent of God’s name given on Mount Sinai (Exod 3:14; cp. John 4:26; Isa 43:11-13; 48:12).
OET (OET-LV) Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) said to_them:
Truly, truly, I_am_saying to_you_all, before Abraʼam to_become, I am.
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua answered, “I can assure you that I am[fn] before Abraham ever existed.”
8:58 This awkward English is necessary to catch the play on words, because ‘I am’ is the meaning of Yahweh, the name of God.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.