He is Jehovah God.Īgain, Jesus declared He was God in John 10:30, He used the verb “to be” to declare that He was eternally existing. Notice that Jesus said He was “I AM.” That is, the same statement Jehovah God gave to Moses in Exodus 3:14. Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
Some today may be confused as to what Jesus claimed about Himself, but it is clear in this passage that the religious leaders understood Jesus claimed to be God. In John 5:17-18 He said,īut He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” For this reason 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. In fact earlier in the gospel of John, Jesus has already declared that He was and is God. The overwhelming message of the Bible is that Jesus is God. What follows is an explanation of His comment in John 14:28. Next we need to understand what Jesus meant by His statement, “ My Father is greater than I.” Two apparently conflicting statements are not necessarily in conflict. The starting point to answering the question, “If Jesus is God, why did He say, ‘ My Father is greater than I?” is to understand that Jesus is God. If Jesus is God, then why did He say in John 14:28, “You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater than I.
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