* Verily.
  34,51 
 * Before.
  1:1,2  17:5,24  Pr 8:22-30  Isa 9:6  Mic 5:2  Col 1:17  Heb 1:10-12 
  Heb 13:8  Re 1:11,17,18  2:8 
 * I am.
   That our Lord by this expression asserted his divinity and
   eternal existence, as the great I AM, appears evident from the
   use of the present tense, instead of the past tense, from its
   being in answer to the Jews, who enquired whether he had seen
   Abraham, and from its being thus understood by the multitude,
   who were exasperated at it to such a degree that they took up
   stones to stone him.  The ancient Jews not only believed that
   the Messiah was superior to and Lord of all the patriarchs,
   and even of angels, but that his celestial nature existed with
   God from whom it emanated, before the creation, and that the
   creation was effected by his ministry.

  Ex 3:14  Isa 43:13  44:6,8  46:9  48:12  Re 1:8