All Claims of The Son's Deity
In about 45% of the New Testament, 19 witnesses make 50 claims of The Son's Deity in 186 iterations, including 54 iterations by Jesus Himself.
These claims are organized in three ways on separate Pages:
Claims By Verse: the most detailed; ordered canonically from Matthew to Revelation.
Claims By Witness: citations only, plus short quotations of the more memorable ones.
Claims By Category: citations only, but catalogs the different types of claims.
There are far more claims of The Son's deity than I was led to believe by conventional minimalization; but hundreds were not necessary. In God-breathed Scripture, only one of them was necessary to state the truth.
These claims are a more complete portrait of what the apostle John meant when he wrote, "The one who believes in The Son has eternal life. The one who rejects The Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him" [John 3:36]. Rejecting The Son's deity is in fact rejecting The Son, which Jesus warns explicitly [John 8:24].
BY WITNESS
Jesus Himself [54]
Matt 10:37; 11:27a; 11:27b; Mark 2:5; Luke 14:26; John 2:19; 3:13; 3:16; 3:18; 5:17; 5:19; 5:21; 5:23; 5:34; John 6:46; 8:12; 8:19b; 8:19c; 8:23; 8:24; 8:28; 8:42; 8:46; 8:58; 10:14-16; 10:30; 10:38; 11:25; 12:31; 12:32; 14:1; 14:6; 14:7; John 14:9a; 14:9b; 14:10; 14:11; 14:13; 14:14; 14:23; 15:15; 16:15; 16:26; 16:28; 16:33; 17:3; 17:5a; 17:5b; 17:10; John 17:11; 17:21; 17:22; 17:24; 21:22.
The most memorable will be briefly detailed below each witness:
John 5:23 ⇒ "All people will honor The Son just as they honor The Father. The one
who does not honor The Son does not honor The Father."
John 5:34 ⇒ "I do not accept human testimony."
John 6:46 ⇒ Jesus is the only one who has literally seen The Father.
John 8:23-24 ⇒ "You people are from Below; I am from Above. You people are from
this world; I am not from this world. Unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins."
John 8:58 ⇒ "Amen, amen I tell you: Before Abraham existed, I AM."
John 10:30 ⇒ "The Father and I are one."
His audience understood clearly what Jesus was saying. They said he was "making himself out to be God."
John 14:9b ⇒ "The one who has seen me has seen The Father."
John 14:13 ⇒ Jesus told His disciples that He Himself will answer their prayers after
He ascended.
John 16:28 ⇒ "I came out from The Father and came into the world. I will leave the
world and return again with The Father."
John 17:5 ⇒ And now glorify me, Father, by your side with the glory I had with you
before the universe existed." [« Isa 42:8. "I am Yahweh. That is my Name. I share my glory with no one, nor my praise with idols."]
Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptizer [1]
Luke 1:43.
Gabriel, an Angel of God [3]
Luke 1:16 (x2); 1:17.
Luke 1:16 ⇒ "The Lord their God"
Luke the Physician [2]
Acts 9:17; 19:5.
John the Apostle [26]
John 1:1a; 1:1c; 1:2; 1:3; 1:7; 1:10; 1:11; 1:12; 1:18; 2:24; 2:25; 13:3; 1 John 1:1; 1:2; 3:1; 3:5; 4:9; 5:20;
2 John 1:9b; Rev 5:13; 21:23b; 21:23c; 22:3; 22:5a-b; 22:5c; 22:5d.
John 1:1 ⇒ "In The Beginning was The Word…and The Word was God."
John 1:3 ⇒ "All things were made through Him."
John 1:18 ⇒ "God The Only Son" (μονογενὴς θεός).
John 13:3 ⇒ He had come from God and was going back to God.
1 John 5:20 ⇒ Jesus is "The True God" and "Eternal Life."
Rev 5:13 ⇒ Every creature in the universe worships The Father and The Lamb.
Rev 22:3 ⇒ God's servants will worship God and The Lamb.
Rev 22:5c ⇒ The Father and The Son are jointly called "The Lord God" (κύριος ὁ θεός).
John the Baptizer [1]
John 1:23.
John 1:23 ⇒ John claimed to fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah 40:3, an announcement
in which a special messenger would prepare the way for Yahweh, not the Messiah.
Jude [6]
Jude 1:4; 1:5b; 1:5c; 1:14; 1:24; 1:25.
Jude 1:4 ⇒ The Only Master and Lord (ὁ μόνος δεσπότης καὶ κύριος).
Jude 1:5b ⇒ Jesus saved the ancient Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
Jude 1:5c ⇒ Jesus destroyed those ancient Israelites who did not believe.
Matthew [1]
Matt 16:27.
Paul [80]
Acts 21:13; Rom 2:6; 7:4; 8:3; 9:5; 9:32; 10:9; 10:12; 10:13; 14:9; 14:10; 14:11; 14:12. 1 Cor 1:2; 1:8a; 1:8b; 1:31; 2:16; 5:13; 6:17; 7:17; 8:6c; 8:6d; 10:4; 10:9; 11:32; 12:3; 15:24; 15:26; 15:47; 16:7; 16:22. Eph 1:13; 1:15; 2:15; Eph 4:5; 4:8; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 5:14a-b; 5:14c; 5:19; 5:32; 6:9; 6:24. Phil 2:6a; 2:6b; 2:7a; 2:8a; 2:10-11a;
Phil 2:11b; 3:20; 3:21. Col 1:4; 3:10. 1 Tim 1:12; 1:15; 1:16b; 1:16c; 3:15-16. 2 Tim 1:10; 1:12b; 1:12c; 2:12; 2:13c; 2:19; 4:1; 4:8; 4:14. Titus 1:3; 2:13; 2:14. Phlm 1:5. Heb 1:2c; 1:3a; 1:3b; 1:8; 13:8.
(Hebrews is included in this list out of convention.)
Rom 8:3 ⇒ Sent from God in the likeness of sinful flesh.
Rom 9:5 ⇒ "The God who is over all."
Rom 9:32 ⇒ Paul says Jesus was the stumbling stone prophesied in Isaiah [8:13-14;
28:16]. But in Isaiah the stone was identified as Yahweh Himself.
Rom 10:9 ⇒ "Jesus is Lord" or "The Lord Jesus" or where "Lord" denotes Yahweh.
Rom 10:13 ⇒ Everyone who calls on The Name of the Lord will be saved [Joel 2:32].
Jesus is "The Lord" here.
1 Cor 8:6c ⇒ The "One Lord" from the Shema
1 Cor 10:4 ⇒ Christ was the spiritual rock which accompanied the ancient Israelites
in the wilderness.
1 Cor 10:9 ⇒ Christ was the one the ancient Israelites put to the test in the
wilderness.
Eph 5:14c ⇒ In clause 3, explicitly cites the Old Testament ("for this reason it
says…") in a direct substitution of Jesus for the referent of Isaiah 60:1-2, who is Yahweh and The Kabôd Yahweh.
Eph 5:19 ⇒ Sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to Jesus.
Eph 5:32 ⇒ Joined to Jesus in a way for which marriage is but a shadow.
Phil 2:6a ⇒ Jesus ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων. His taxis, a categorization or description of
his essential being, was that of God.
Phil 2:6b ⇒ Jesus exists in a state of equality with God (τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ).
Phil 2:10-11a ⇒ Paul quotes Isaiah 45:23-24 where every knee will bend and every
tongue confess Yahweh, and applies it to Jesus.
1 Tim 3:15-16 ⇒ "The Living God … manifest in flesh."
Titus 2:13 ⇒ "our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ"
Titus 2:14 ⇒ The Son purified for himself an elect people (λαός περιούσιος).
[« Ex 19:5; 23:22; Deut 7:6; 14:2; Mal 3:17; Jer 31:31-33; Ezek 37:23-28. This is the exclusive prerogative of Yahweh]
Heb 1:3b ⇒ "Exact Reproduction of God's Essential Being" (χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑποστάσεως
αὐτοῦ)
Heb 1:8 ⇒ The Father calls The Son "God."
Heb 13:8 ⇒ "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!"
Peter [2]
John 21:17; 2 Pet 1:1.
John 21:17 ⇒ "Lord, you know all things."
2 Pet 1:1 ⇒ "our God and Savior Jesus Christ"
Thomas [1]
John 20:28.
John 20:28 ⇒ "My Lord and my God!"
Zechariah, Father of John the Baptizer [4]
Luke 1:68 (x2); Luke 1:76a; 1:76b.
The Eleven [2]
John 16:30a; 16:30c.
This was the first moment The Eleven realized Jesus was Yahweh of their own faculties, not speaking from The Holy Spirit.
John 16:30a ⇒ "You know all things" (οἶδας πάντα).
John 16:30c ⇒ "You have come out from God!" (ἀπὸ θεοῦ ἐξῆλθες).
other Believers [1]
Acts 21:14
Acts 21:14 ⇒ “The Lord’s will be done” (speaking of Jesus/Yahweh)