John 8:25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 [a]So they said to him, “Who are you?”(A) Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.
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- 8:25 What I told you from the beginning: this verse seems textually corrupt, with several other possible translations: “(I am) what I say to you”; “Why do I speak to you at all?” The earliest attested reading (Bodmer Papyrus P66) has (in a second hand), “I told you at the beginning what I am also telling you (now).” The answer here (cf. Prv 8:22) seems to hinge on a misunderstanding of Jn 8:24 “that I AM” as “what I am.”
John 8:25
New International Version
25 “Who are you?” they asked.
“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
John 8:25
King James Version
25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
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