John 8:28

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

‘I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness of what we have seen, and you do not accept our witness.

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing from Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same manner.

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how do You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

“For I did not speak from Myself, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.

“And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

in order that the word of Jesus which He spoke would be fulfilled, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.