Scriptural Evidence of Jesus Christ’s Divinity by Jacinta Nadarajan

Now that the Gospels have been proved to be reliable sources, the knowledge within can be used to prove
Christ’s Divinity. Jesus claimed to be divine in six instances in the Bible. Jesus also proved he was divine by
fulfilling prophecies, making and fulfilling his own prophecies, and performing miracles.

Jesus explicitly claims to be God in the Bible. There are five instances of His claims; John 8:58, John
10:30, John 14:8-11, Luke 10:16, Matthew 10:32, and Matthew 26:64. Our Lord says in John 8:58, “Amen, amen I
say to you, before Abraham was made, I am”, revealing his existence since the beginning of time. Later in John 10:30,
He clearly expresses His Divinity saying, “I and the Father are one”. In John 14:8-11, in response to Phillip’s request
to be shown the Father, Jesus says, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the
Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?”. He reiterates His unity with the
Father when He states in Luke 10:16, “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but
whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me”. In Matthew 10:32, Jesus declares his identity as the Son of God by
saying “Everyone therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in
heaven”. In Matthew 26:64, Jesus says, “Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son
of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” In response to Pilate’s
question of whether He was the Son of God. Thus, Jesus repeatedly asserts that He is God.

Jesus proves that He is God by fulfilling Old Testament prophecies. In the Old Testament, Isaiah prophecies that
the Messiah will be born of a virgin in Isaiah 7:14, which reads, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a
sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel”. As well as the manner of
Jesus conception, Isaiah also foretells the lineage of the Messiah in Isaiah 11:1 also indicates the ancestry of
Jesus, saying, “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit”. Micah
revealed in Micah 5:1-14 that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Jesus fulfilled these prophecies in His
virginal conception through Mary, a descendant of David, the son of Jesse, and birth in the city of Bethlehem.
Finally, in Zechariah 11:12-13 he says, ““I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.”
So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price
at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the
Lord”, thus predicting the betrayal of Judas. Hence, Our Lord proved His Divinity by fulfilling prophecies.

Jesus showed that He was God by making His own prophecies, which were later fulfilled. In Matthew 20:
18-19, Jesus predicts His own suffering and death saying, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man
will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will
hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to
life!”. Jesus also predicts Peter’s betrayal, when it seemed that peter would remain loyal to Him in Matthew
26:34, which reads, “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will
disown me three times”. He later predicts that yet another of His disciples would betray Him, this time to death
in John 13:21-26, “After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of
you is going to betray me.” His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. One
of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and
said, “Ask him which one he means.” Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?” Jesus
answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then,
dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot”. Thus Jesus proved that He was God
by forming prophecies, which were fulfilled in due time.

The final way that Our Lord proved His Divinity was by performing miracles. In Mk 1:32-34, the
whole town which He was visiting came to Him, bringing their sick and others afflicted with various sufferings,
Jesus healed them all and drove out demons of those who were possessed. In John 2, Jesus was attending a
wedding feast. While He was there, the wedding hosts ran out of wine. Jesus performed His first public miracle
there, when He turned the water into wine. In John 11, one of Jesus’ close friends Lazarus, died. When Jesus
was brought to Lazarus’ tomb four days after he died, Jesus raised Lazarus to life and told him to come out of
the tomb, although in that time Lazarus’ body should have decayed. Thus Jesus substantiated his Divinity by
performing miracles.