Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageSo they said to Him, "Who are You?" Jesus said to them, "I am what I have been telling you from the very beginning."
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSo they said to Him, "Who are You?" Yeshua said to them, "Precisely what I have been telling you from the very beginning."
KJV
King James VersionThen said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
Footnotes
This is one of the most debated phrases in Johannine Greek: "τὴν ἀρχὴν ὅ τι καὶ λαλῶ ὑμῖν." The accusative "τὴν ἀρχήν" can function adverbially as "from the beginning," "essentially," or "primarily"; some scholars read the clause as exasperated rhetoric—"Why do I even speak to you at all?" The most defensible syntactical reading, however, treats Yeshua's/Jesus's answer as a refusal to reduce His identity to a single label, pointing back instead to His entire self-revelation across John 7–8: "I am exactly what I have been telling you all along." Both versions adopt this reading but differ in stress: FOG underlines the precision and consistency of His self-disclosure ("Precisely what…"), while FOG Message emphasises its ongoing cumulative nature ("I am what I have been telling you from the very beginning").
