<p>6:20 <i>But he said to them: It is I Be not afraid</i>- It was not that they thought He was someone else, like a ghost. &quot;They saw Jesus&quot; (:19). So His assurance to them was that &quot;It is I&quot;, the &quot;I am&quot; (Gk.), the One with the character and Name of God, who above all wanted their salvation. And there was no need to fear Him; He was their saviour. For salvation by grace is at the heart of the memorial Name &quot;I am&quot;. &quot;It is I&quot; recalls many Old Testament passages where God declares Himself as Israel's saviour, the &quot;I am&quot;, who also walks upon the waves of the sea and brings peace to the storm. The Lord was asking them to see in Him the human face of that saviour God, the manifestation of that Name in a human person; and to accept that for them it meant salvation, and they need not fear, even their own sins and rejection of the commission to the Gentiles.</p>