Does jesus actually ever say he was the son of god?

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Im curious,i can’t find where he states he was the son of god!

Normally when somome asks him if it was true he would say"you have said so"
I dont know what to make of that?
Anybody got any passages that could help me out here?
 
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godsent:
Im curious,i can’t find where he states he was the son of god!

Normally when somome asks him if it was true he would say"you have said so"
I dont know what to make of that?
Anybody got any passages that could help me out here?
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Luke 10:22 is probably able to defeat most attempts to skeptically misinterpret Scripture…

22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."

There Jesus is clearly singling Himself out as The Son of The Father.
 
Jn 1;1 - the Word was God
Jn 1:14-15 - glory of Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth
Jn 8:19 - if you knew me, you would know my Father
Jn 8:58-59 - I assure you, before Abraham was, I AM
Jn 10:30-33 - the Father and I are one (see Ex 3:14, 20:7; Lev 19:12, 24:14-16)
Jn 10:38 - the Father is in me and I am in the Father
Jn 12:45 - whosoever sees me sees the one who sent me
Jn 14:8-12 - whoever had seen has seen the Father
Jn 20:28 - Jesus accepts Thomas’s “my Lord and my God”
Col 2:9 - in him dwells whole fullness of deity bodily
Acts 20:28 - church of God he acquired with his blood
Eph 1:7 - in him we have redemption by his blood
1Jn 1:7 - blood of his Son Jesus cleanses from all sin
Tit 2;13 - glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ
 
How about Matthew 16:16 where Peter says (one of my 2 favorite verses in the Bible by the way) "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’. Granted Jesus doesn’t say he is the Son of God, but his reply to Peter isn’t simply ‘so you say’. It is ‘Blessed are you, Simon bar-Jonah for fles and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father’. He is clearly agreeing with Peter - not jsut saying ‘so you say’ and being vague.
 
Mat2:15 - In prophecy the Lord says of Jesus “out of Egypt I have called my son”

Mat3:17 - The Father says “This is my son…”

Mat4:3 - The tempter says “If you are the son of God…”

Mat8:29 - The demons recognise Jesus as Son of God

Mat11:27 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him]. (KJV - sorry!)

Mat14:33 - Jesus is worshipped as Son of God and does not deny it.

Mat16:16 - Peter says he is the Son of God. Jesus says this is revealed to him from heaven.

Mat17:5 - a voice from heaven, “this is my beloved son”

Mt27:43 - people say that Jesus had said he is Son of God

That’s enough from Matthew’s Gospel.

I don’t think that Jesus ever said anything like “worship me for I am the Son of God. Not only that I am God the Son, fully divine from eternity and fully human…” Doctrinal debates would be far simpler if he had expressed a systematic theology about himself. Nevertheless scripture is very clear that he is Son of God.

Actually in the words of Jesus John 5:20, and John 10:36 (Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?) his statement of divine sonship is clear. And Jn11:14
 
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godsent:
Im curious,i can’t find where he states he was the son of god!

Normally when somome asks him if it was true he would say"you have said so"
I dont know what to make of that?
Anybody got any passages that could help me out here?
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Godsent,

If I may offer a little social perspective, saying that you are the Son of God was theological dynamite, much like saying that you are the King of the Jews was political dynamite. Either statement, if made openly and in public, would have gotten Jesus arrested and executed–as He eventually was. But He didn’t want to get arrested and executed “before His time.”
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Do we all not pray, saying “Our Father who art in heaven…”?
This is obviously metaphorical, yet is it possible that other biblical references are also metaphorical in the same way??
Are we not all ‘children of God’ ?
just wondering…
 
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JohnG139:
Do we all not pray, saying “Our Father who art in heaven…”?
This is obviously metaphorical, yet is it possible that other biblical references are also metaphorical in the same way??
Are we not all ‘children of God’ ?
just wondering…
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JohnG,

Yes, we do indeed all pray “Our Father.” And actually, I would differ from you over the question of whether it is literal or metaphorical; I would say that God is indeed literally my Father in Heaven. But that is a subject for a different thread if you want to pursue it.

I draw a difference between myself as “a child of God,” one of many, and Jesus as “the Son of God.” It is the latter to which I was referring as theological dynamite.
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There have been excellent replies to this thread so I won’t add to the Scripture quotes directly and hopefully what I say will augment them. If you study the Gospels, as a whole, amoung other thing about Jesus and His ministry was Jesus’ absolute commitment to making all aware the the Father’s Kingdom (the Kingdom of God/Heaven) is present and active amoung them here and right now. Also, from the Gospel accounts of the Temptations of Jesus, one of the temptations Jesus seems to have constantly faced was to so all that he was the Son of God especially through his mircles (remember how Jesus had to constantly silence the devil when the devil would start to proclaim Jesus to be the Son of God - God. In Mark Jesus even had to silence His own followers when they wanted to proclaim Him the Messiah) because this would have distracted from His mission by turning things onto Himself and not His proclamation about the Father’s Kingdom. So, in my opinion, Jesus, even besides the religious and political consequences, wouldn’t proclaim Himself Son of God because it would be fatal to the real objective of His Ministry.
 
Ok, Straight from the Lord’s mouth:
Mark 14:61b-62 (Douay-Rheims Verison)

And again the High Preist asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God?
And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming with the clouds of heaven.

That’s the clearest and most concise answer to the question at hand.
 
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TOME:
… In Mark Jesus even had to silence His own followers when they wanted to proclaim Him the Messiah) because this would have distracted from His mission by turning things onto Himself and not His proclamation about the Father’s Kingdom. So, in my opinion, Jesus, even besides the religious and political consequences, wouldn’t proclaim Himself Son of God because it would be fatal to the real objective of His Ministry.
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TOME,

That is an excellent point. I will remember it.
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