I, Jesus

At the very end the speaker signs with his own name: I, Jesus. Nowhere else in the Bible does it appear exactly like this. Earlier God calls himself Alpha and Omega, the first letter of the alphabet and the last. Here Jesus says it of himself.

He also calls himself the root and the offspring of David. In Isaiah a new shoot grows from the felled stump of Jesse, David's father. Jesus is that shoot, and the root beneath it too. What seemed written off still has a living root.