In addition to this, between the four Gospels and the Book
of Revelation, Jesus uses the term 'my Father' about sixty
times. One of the shortest verses in the four Gospels, yet
one of the most powerful examples of this, is found only in
the Gospel of John:

"I and my Father are one."
(John 10:30, KJV)

Jesus was recognized by many people and spiritual beings as
being the Son of God, beginning with the angel Gabriel who
appeared to Mary to inform her of her forthcoming pregnancy:

"And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost
shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall
be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."
(Luke 1:35, KJV)

John the Baptist not only recognized Jesus as the Son of
God, but he also referred to Him as the Lamb of God; the
very same term that the Disciple John used in the Book of
Revelation:

"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world . . . And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son
of God . . . And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith,
Behold the Lamb of God!"
(John 1:29, 34, 36, KJV)

Jesus was recognized as the Son of God by His Twelve
Disciples and by other followers as well. After the Lord had
walked across the choppy Sea of Galilee, following the
miracle of the loaves and the fishes, they could do nothing
but recognize Jesus for who He truly is and thus said:

". . . Of a truth thou art the Son of God."
(Matthew 14:33b, KJV)

Later, when they were in the coasts of Caesarea Philippi,
Jesus again tested the faith of His Disciples by asking them
who they believed Him to be. Some of them offered a few
answers, but then Simon Peter boldly exclaimed:

". . . Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which is in heaven."
(Matthew 16:16b-17, KJV)

The Gospel writer Mark, who some people identify as the same
John Mark of the Book of Acts, and possibly the Marcus
mentioned in some of the Epistles, who accompanied Paul on
some of his missionary journeys, clearly recognized Jesus as
the Son of God. The very first words of his Gospel are the
following:

"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God;"
(Mark 1:1, KJV)

Luke the physician, who is also believed to have accompanied
Paul on some of his missionary journeys, in writing in his
Gospel of the genealogies of Jesus Christ, recorded the
following:

"Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which
was the son of Adam, which was the son of God."
(Luke 3:38, KJV)

After Jesus had called Philip to be a Disciple, Philip went
to find Nathanael to inform him that they had found the
Messiah. At first, Nathanael was incredulous, but he later
acknowledged his error when he also exclaimed with
amazement:

". . . Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of
Israel."
(John 1:49b, KJV)

Just prior to raising Lazarus from the dead in Bethany,
Jesus questioned Martha, the sister of Lazarus and Mary,
regarding His Divinity; and she replied:

". . . Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the
Son of God, which should come into the world."
(John 11:27b, KJV)

John the Beloved, also known as John the Revelator, author
of the Gospel of John, the Epistles of John, and the Book of
Revelation, and also believed by some to have been the
youngest of the Original Twelve, provides ample evidence of
the Sonship of Jesus Christ with the following remarks:

"But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have
life through his name."
(John 20:31, KJV)

"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God."
(1 John 4:15, KJV)

"Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth
that Jesus is the Son of God? . . . He that believeth on the
Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth
not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his Son . . . He that hath the Son
hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not
life. These things have I written unto you that believe on
the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son
of God . . . And we know that the Son of God is come, and
hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is
true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."
(1 John 5:5, 10, 12-13, 20, KJV)

After being chased out of the Temple, Jesus passed by a
blind man whom He healed immediately. This resulted in a
confrontation with the unbelieving Pharisees, who even went
as far as to call in the man's parents. After the blind man
had been questioned and thrown out of the Temple, he
encountered the Lord a second time. Jesus used the
opportunity to test the man's faith in the following
conversation:

"Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had
found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of
God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might
believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen
him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord,
I believe. And he worshipped him."
(John 9:35-38, KJV)

In yet another clear example, at the moment of Jesus' death
on the Cross, we are told by two of the Gospel writers, that
the Roman centurion, and those who were with him, also
recognized the Divine Sonship of Jesus Christ:

"Now when the centurion, and they that were with him,
watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the
Son of God."
(Matthew 27:54, KJV)

"And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw
that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly
this man was the Son of God."
(Mark 15:39, KJV)

Some time later, when Philip met up with the Ethiopian
eunuch in Gaza, after witnessing to him in his chariot from
the book of Isaiah, the enuch also believed in the Lord and
said:

". . . I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
(Acts 8:37b, KJV)

In writing of the conversion of the Apostle Paul, and of how
he immediately began preaching the Gospel within days of his
life-changing experience, Luke tells us:

"And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that
he is the Son of God."
(Acts 9:20, KJV)

Throughout his Epistles, Paul testifies to the fact that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. For example, he opens his
Epistle to the Roman brethren with the following words:

"Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be
the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of
holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:"
(Romans 1:3-4, KJV)


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