Interested Readers -
In John 18:3, Christ and His disciples are in the Garden of Gethsemane in the middle of the night, but they are not alone for very long:
“Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.”
In John 18:4 Christ goes forth to this band of men and asks them, “Whom do you see?”
John 18:5“They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am (he). And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.”
Due to His answer of “I AM”, this is what happened to them:John 18:6“As soon then as he had said unto them, I am (he), they went backward and fell to the ground.
Christ Jesus had made the good confession in power. Those two words, “I” and “AM” have a numerical value of 873.
873 = 97 x 3 x 3
When the Word was first written in Heaven before Adam was created, God decided to use this important number 97 as the basis for this betrayal encounter confession. That was a deliberate choice God made and would seem to indicate that 97 is a kind of primal number, more important than others, imo.
You can verify that verse and it’s numbers here:
Of special note also, you may remember, is that Enoch’s greek name value of 1455 is also based on 97:
1455 = 97 x 5 x 3
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