The professor told me that nowhere in the New Testament did Jesus claimed to be God. And after I went through John 5, I turned to John 10 verses 27 to 36. It says this, “Jesus said, ‘My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me. And I give eternal life to them, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father who gave them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.’” Why? “I and the Father are one.”

You reply, “Well I can say, ‘I and my father are one’ that doesn’t make me out to be God.” But when you take into consideration the people, the culture, and the language it is a direct claim to deity.
Again, let us see how His audience, the Jews, responded to what He said; and how they understood it. “The Jews took up stones again to stone Him; and Jesus answered them, ‘I showed you many good works from the Father. For which of them are you stoning me?’ And the Jews answered Him, ‘For a good work we do not stone you but for blasphemy.’”

Now notice what they said, “Because you being a man make yourself out to be God.” That is how the Jew understood what Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” And Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your law that I said you are gods? And if he called them gods to whom the word of God came, then the scriptures cannot be broken.”

But the difference was this. When they referred to the term “We are all gods,” they were referring to human beings. But here the way Jesus used the term, they understood Him to be referring to the one and only true God, Yahweh.

At this point the professor interrupted me. He said, “Just a minute. John was the latest gospel written. No other gospel, none of the other three gospels even hint that Jesus claimed to be God.” I asked, “They didn’t?” and he said, “No”. Then I said let us turn to the book of Matthew.

SUMMARY: A professor said that nowhere in the New Testament did Jesus claim to be God. Josh turned to John 10:27-36 and read through to “Because I and the Father are one.” He explained that the language is a direct claim to deity. What did the Jews do? They took up stones again to stone Jesus. They said, “Because you being a man make yourself out to be God.” They understand Jesus to be referring to the one and only true God, Yahweh. The professor discounted John by saying that it was the latest gospel written and that none of the other three gospels even hint that Jesus claimed to be God. Josh said, “Let’s turn to the book of Matthew.

QUESTIONS:
1. What did the professor say about Jesus claiming to be God in the New Testament?
2. To what Scripture did Josh turn?
3. Who does Jesus say that he is one with?
4. How did the Jews respond?
5. What were the two reasons given by the professor why he discounted John?