That isn't what Jesus said. And, the reaction by the people was to stone him. They would only stone him if he claimed to be God, the Lord Jehovah. The statement was actually, "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!" There is that I AM again. Just what Jehovah said to Moses, "I AM." Thus, Jehovah is Jesus Christ. He came down off the right hand of the Throne of God to become the Savior and Redeemer through the Atonement as Jesus Christ.
Also, I never said Elohim, the Most High God, was YHWH or Jehovah. Jehovah and Elohim are the Father and the Son, two separate and distinct personages. "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil." - Genesis 3:22
Plural!!!