John 1:20

Verse

Καὶ ὡμολόγησε, καὶ οὐκ ἠρνήσατο· καὶ ὡμολόγησεν ὅτι Οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐγὼ ὁ Χριστός.

RBT Greek Interlinear:

2532; kai; καὶ; and; Conj

3670; hōmologēsen; ὡμολόγησεν; had made; V-AIA-3S

2532; kai; καὶ; and; Conj

3756; ouk; οὐκ; not; Adv

720; ērnēsato; ἠρνήσατο; refused; V-AIM-3S

2532; kai; καὶ; and; Conj

3670; hōmologēsen; ὡμολόγησεν; had made; V-AIA-3S

3754; hoti; ὅτι; that; Conj

1473; Egō; Ἐγὼ; I/Myself; PPro-N1S

3756; ouk; οὐκ; not; Adv

1510; eimi; εἰμὶ; I am; V-PIA-1S

3588; ho; ὁ; the; Art-NMS

5547; Christos; Χριστός; Christ; N-NMS

RBT Translation:

I'm not myself: The Last Hour of "Anti-Christs"

And he confessed,³⁵ and he denied not,³⁶ and he confessedthat, "I am not myself, the Anointed One."³⁷

Eternal One/Self.
Left one, Middle one, Right one.
"The one who was, the one who comes, the one who is."

LITV Translation:
And he acknowledged and did not deny; yea, he acknowledged, I am not the Christ.

ESV Translation:
He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

Footnotes

35

Strong’s #3670, homologeó. To speak the same, to agree.

36

Strong’s #720, arneomai. To refuse, abnegate, reject, decline, deny.

37

The Confession

The Greek Ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ὁ Χριστός, I am not myself, the Anointed one.  Hidden in plain sight are these words, where order can make all the difference. In Ancient Greek if one wanted to say "I am not being myself" there is really only one way to write it. But the flexibility of the Greek means that anyone could read this in essentially whatever order they wanted. Yet the order of these words here is atypical, "Myself not I am being the Christ" and is definitely begging to be looked much closer since οὐκ εἰμὶ ὁ Χριστός "not I am the Christ" is plenty sufficient Greek to satisfy the carnal bias.