Who is Jesus? The Great I AM! John 8:48-59 Introduction: Here, at the end of John 8, is a passage that powerfully responds to a key question John has invited us to consider: Who is Jesus? We have not rushed our study of this scene, at, or just after the Feast of Booths in Jerusalem. Still there is much more that could and should be said. Jesus is in a confrontation with some of the leaders of the Jews; and He had just said that their rejection of Him revealed that they did not know God (8:42-47) – Rather than being children of God, their unbelief exposed them as children of the Devil. The One whom they should have been waiting for, the One predicted in the Scriptures (which they claimed to believe), the One promised since the Fall was there, in their midst, and they did not know Him. He came unto His own, and his own people did not receive Him. In this scene Jesus is about to reveal more explicitly who He claims to be, and they ar...