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'It is I' in the Bible

But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?

If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about.

And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.

For they all saw him, and were troubled. But straight away he said to them, Take heart, it is I, have no fear.

And Jesus said to them, You will all be turned away from me: for it is in the Writings, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight.

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.

And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.

See; my hands and my feet: it is I myself; put your hands on me and make certain; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain