The Divinity of Christ Jesus

in the Gospel of John

John 1:1 "The Word was God." The Greek text has Logos as the subject and God as the object in the sentence There is no article "a" in the Greek text as the Jehovah Witnesses claim in their New World translation Even in their translation the article "a" is not used in the same context in John 1:6 and 1:18.

John 1:3 "Through him all things came to be."

John 1:14, 18 "The only begotten Son of the Father." In the original Greek the text is even stronger, actually saying, "the only begotten God."

John 5:18 " 'My Father goes on working and so do I.' But that only made the Jews more intent on killing him, because not content with breaking the Sabbath, he spoke of God as his own father, and so made himself God's equal."

John 8:58 "Before Abraham was, I AM." See Exodus 3:14.

John 9:38 "He said, 'Lord, I believe'; and he worshipped him." The Greek word used here for worship is the same word John uses in Rev. 19:10 and 22:9. But in this situation Jesus does not correct the man as the angel corrected John in Revelation.

John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."

John 18:5 "When Jesus said, 'I am he,' they drew back and fell to the ground."

This is the normal posture taken by others in the bible when they find themselves in the presence of God.

John 20:28-29 "My Lord and my God!"... "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet believe."

These are only a few passages and from only one Gospel, of the many proclamations of the divinity of Jesus in the Gospels and Letters of the New Testament. The Gospel proclaims that Jesus is true God and true man and certainly greater than any angel or any other man. This is made clear in the entire Letter to the Hebrews.

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