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 CATEGORY
Actions of Yahweh [22]
Answers prayer ⇒ [3x] John 14:13; 14:14; 16:26.
Draws all people to Himself ⇒ [1x] John 12:32.
Eliminates death itself ⇒ [2x] 1 Cor 15:26; 2 Tim 1:10.
Forgives sin ⇒ [1x] Mark 2:5.
Fulfills all things (or: fills the universe) ⇒ [1x] Eph 4:10.
Gives life ⇒ [3x] John 5:21; 21:22; 1 Cor 15:45.
Influences human action (despite no longer being on Earth)
⇒ [7x] 1 Cor 1:8a; 11:32; 16:7; 1 Tim 1:12; 1:16b; 2 Tim 1:12c; Jude 1:24.
Nullified [the power of] The Law ⇒ [1x] Eph 2:15.
Purifies for Himself an elect people (λαός περιούσιος) ⇒ [1x] Titus 2:14.
Resurrects Himself from the dead ⇒ [1x] John 2:19.
Transforms all believers’ bodies into His own likeness ⇒ [1x] Phil 3:21.
Characteristics of Yahweh [30]
Eternal ⇒ [6x] John 1:1a; 1:2; 17:5b; 17:24; 1 John 1:1; 1:2.
Immutable ⇒ [2x] 2 Tim 2:13c; Heb 13:8.
Impassible ⇒ [2x] Phil 2:7a; 2:7b.
Inscrutable ⇒ [2x] Matt 11:27a; John 8:19b.
Sinless ⇒ [2x] John 8:46; 1 John 3:5.
Omniscient (accounting for kenosis and difference in role)
⇒ [4x] John 2:24; 2:25; 16:30a; 21:17.
Otherworldly ⇒ [12x] John 5:34; 6:46; 8:23; 8:42; 13:3; 15:5; 16:28; 16:30c; Rom 8:3;
1 Cor 15:47; Eph 4:9; 1 Tim 1:15.
Conflations, Other [27]
Ascriptions ⇒ [2x]
Luke 1:76 (The Most High); Rom 14:9 (Lord of the Living and the Dead).
Assertions ⇒ [4x]
John 8:12 (I am The Light of the World).
John 11:25 (I am The Ressurection and The Life).
John 14:6 (I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life).
John 16:33 (I have conquered the World).
Born of ⇒ [1x] 1 John 3:1.
Denying Him results in Hell ⇒ [1x] 2 Tim 2:12.
Equal Authority and Ownership to The Father ⇒ [2x] John 16:15; 17:10.
Equal Possessor of God’s glory, which Yahweh shares with no one [« Isa 42:8]
⇒ [1x] John 17:5a.
Knowing The Son equals knowing The Father ⇒ [4x] Matt 11:27b; John 8:19c; 14:7; 14:8.
Knowing equals Eternal Life ⇒ [1x] John 17:3.
One with The Father and/or The Spirit ontologically
⇒ [8x] John 10:30; 10:38; 14:10; 14:11; 14:23; 17:11; 17:21: 17:22.
Seeing The Son equals seeing The Father ⇒ [1x] John 14:9.
Working of The Son equated to working of The Father ⇒ [2x] John 5:17; 5:19.
Devotion due to Yahweh [21]
Devotional Belief in (not mundane belief, confidence, or trust)
⇒ [9x] John 1:7; 1:12; 14:1; Eph 1:13; 1:15; Col 1:4; 1 Tim 1:16c; 2 Tim 1:12b; Phlm 1:5.
of Equal Honor to The Father ⇒ [1x] John 5:23.
Object of the Highest Love, due only to the God of The Shema
⇒ [4x] Matt 10:37; Luke 14:26; 1 Cor 16:22; Eph 6:24.
United to ⇒ [3x] Rom 7:4; 1 Cor 6:17; Eph 5:32.
Worship of ⇒ [4x] Eph 5:19; Rev 5:13; Rev 22:3; 22:5a-b.
Direct Equation [69]
Called "Lord" in the sense of "Yahweh" ⇒ [22x]
Luke 1:16; 1:17; 1:43; 1:68; 1:76; John 20:28b; Acts 9:17; 19:5; 21:13; 21:14;
Rom 10:9; 10:12; 1 Cor 1:2; 1:8b; 8:6c; 12:3; Eph 4:5; Phil 2:11b; 3:20; Jude 1:4; 1:14;
Rev 22:5c
Called "God" ⇒ [17x]
Luke 1:16; 1:68; John 1:1c; 1:18; 20:28c; Rom 9:5; 14:10; 14:12; 1 Cor 5:13; 1 Tim 3:15-16; Titus 1:3; 2:13; Heb 1:8; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 5:20; 2 John 1:9; Jude 1:25.
Equal or Identical to God ⇒ [3x] Phil 2:6a; 2:6b; Heb 1:3b.
Monogenic Sonship which denotes the same essence
⇒ [3x] John 3:16; 3:18; 1 John 4:9.
Called The Kabod YHWH / The Glory of God, who is Yahweh
⇒ [2x] Heb 1:3a; Rev 21:23c.
Called the “I AM” or “I Am He,” who is Yahweh
⇒ [3x] John 8:24 (by cataphora); 8:28 (ibid.); 8:58.
Direct OT Citation or Allusion substituting for Yahweh or The Kabod YHWH [19]
John 1:23 (Isa 40:3); John 3:13 (Prov 30:4); Rom 9:32 (Isa 8:13-14; 28:16);
Rom 10:13 (Joel 2:32); Rom 14:11 (Isa 45:23); 1 Cor 1:31 (Jer 9:24[23]);
1 Cor 2:16 (Isa 40:13); 1 Cor 10:4; 1 Cor 10:9; Eph 4:8 (Isa 68:19-21[Eng. 18-20]);
Eph 5:14a-b (Isa 26:19-20); Eph 5:14c (Isa 60:1-2); Phil 2:10-11a (Isa 45:23-24);
2 Tim 2:19 (Num 16:5); 2 Tim 4:14 (Ps 28:4); Jude 1:5b (e.g., Exod 13:9);
Jude 1:5c (Num 1:35); Rev 21:23b (Isa 60:19-20); Rev 22:5a-b (Isa 60:19-20).
Offices of Yahweh [17]
Apportioner to each human his lot in life ⇒ [2x] 1 Cor 7:17; Eph 4:11.
Creator ⇒ [6x] John 1:3; 1:10; 1:11; 1 Cor 8:6d; Col 3:10 (of the New Man, the born-again
aspect); Heb 1:2c.
Judge, Eschatological/Cosmic ⇒ [3x] John 12:31; 2 Tim 4:1; 4:8.
King of Heaven ⇒ [3x] 1 Cor 15:24; Eph 6:9; Rev 22:5d.
Rewarder of each human [« Prov 24:12, exclusive domain of YHWH]
⇒ [2x] Matt 16:27; Rom 2:6.
Shepherd, Only [1]
⇒ John 10:14-16 (“The Good Shepherd” and “One Shepherd” for His “own”).