John 10:29-30
Jesus Tells Us that He and His Father are One
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.
John 4:25-26
Jesus Tells a Samaritan Woman He is the Messiah
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
John 14:1-31
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Jesus the Way to the Father
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
John 20:19-23
Jesus Appears to His Disciples after His Death
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus, when He spoke, often did not speak plainly...He never came out and said He was God, or that He was Divine...But indirectly He said these things...Jesus said many things that make many people think He is Divine...However, there are many who do believe that He was only a nice and good Man and a Great Moral Teacher but not Divine...Others believe He is a Prophet, much like the other prophets in the Bible, but still only a Man and not Divine...
Jesus tells us that He and His Father are One...He told a Samaritan woman that He is the Messiah...On the night right before He was arrested and to be crucified, He was comforting His Disciples, instead of them comforting Him...He told them He was going to heaven to prepare a place for them in one of His Father's many rooms...He told them that He was the way to God...And not only the way to God, but that He is the only way to God...He told them that if they had seen Him, then they had seen God...Jesus told them that God lives in Him and He (Jesus) does God's work...If the Disciples believe in Him, they can do greater miracles than He had done while He was on earth...And Jesus did many miracles on earth...Jesus told His Disciples whatever they did in His name would glorify God...And then He promises to send them the Holy Spirit of God...He would send them an indwelt Spirit that would be with them...A Spirit that would guide, the mind, the soul, body, and feet, and give our conscious the ideas of right and wrong and love...A Spirit that would guide us to the Truths...
He said many other things that make believers believe that He is Divine, and more than just a Man...To me there is this point about being Divine...One cannot be half Divine...One cannot be only partially Divine...You are either Divine, in my opinion, or you are not Divine... If Jesus is not fully Divine, then how can He be One with the Father...If He is not fully Divine to worship Him then would be idolatry... But, if Jesus’s own words are to be studied and believed, if the Disciples were there and right about His resurrection, then there is overwhelming evidence and affirmations of Him being Divine and we must sincerely believe He is much more than a good Man, more than a Great Moral Teacher, and even much more than one of the great prophets...If we take what He said in the gospels seriously, then Jesus is indeed our LORD, the very Word of God sent from the Father and is from heaven, and is the working through the Holy Spirit...To be Divine, One must be complete, and He is Complete...Divine is through and through...He is to be revered and is in the Providence of God...