Where in the Bible does it say that Jesus is God?

by Matt Slick

There is no place in the Bible that says the three words "Jesus is God," but we don't need those exact words to determine that Jesus is God in flesh. There are many verses that teach this.

• John 1:1,14, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…14, And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
• John 5:18, "For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God."
• John 8:24 - "I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins."  (The word “he” is not found in the Greek. Compare with Exodus 3:14)
• John 8:58 with Exodus 3:14.  John 8:58, “Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”  Exodus 3:14, “And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
  John 20:28, “Thomas answered and said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God!’"
• Col. 2:9, “For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form.”
• Phil. 2:5-8, “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
• Heb. 1:8, “But of the Son He says, “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.”

So, it should be quite clear that the writers of the New Testament considered Jesus to be divine.