[count-your-change]

Whether reply or respond is a bagatelle, respond will do if it makes you happy. But there truly is no justification for trying to turn “ego eimi” into a title or name in this Scripture. None. Zero.

[xzins]

We have shown you verse after verse that is justification. If there were “no” justification, we wouldn’t be proposing it. We’re both honest people without an agenda. We have been taught a literate, word-by-word approach to translation, and we’ve gone word-by-word. “Egw Eimi” means “I am”. That is a 1st person singular verb of being with an emphatic 1st person singular pronoun.

“It is I” on the other hand would be something with “eivai”.
You need a third person singular verb of being to arrive at “it is” and I believe that’s “eivai”