Matthew Through John



Matthew Through John

Below are scriptures from the above books related to the page: "Is Jesus God?" Links are provided for many scriptures that discuss the scriptures. Scriptures thought to mean that God's Holy Spirit is a person of God may also be included

Matthew 1:18,20

There is definitely nothing here that presents Jesus as being Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jesus was begotten by means of God's Holy Spirit so that he was not born into this world under the condemnation in Adam. 

God sent his Son into this world to save sinners. Jesus did this by sacrificing his sinless body of flesh with its blood to pay the price of the condemnation that is in Adam. What was needed in such a savior sent by God was that he be human, without sin, and that he, in effect, takes Adam's place. Thus, he could take upon himself the condemnation that is upon Adam and all of Adam's descendants. As result, the condemnation would be lifted upon Adam and all of Adam's descendants. To do this, God prepared a body of flesh and blood for His Son, and made His Son a little lower than the angels so that His Son could offer that body of flesh with its blood to Jehovah for the sin of the world, thus becoming the savior of the world whom Jehovah sent. -- Luke 22:19; John 1:29; 6:51; 14:19; Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; Hebrews 2:9;10:5,10; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; 1 John 4:9-14.

Matthew 1:21

Some claim that this is saying that Jesus is God who came to save His people from their sins. Jesus is definitely the one whom Jehovah anointed and sent. Jesus was born of Mary under the Law, and thus the people of Israel were his people, and Jehovah his God. -- Isaiah 61:1,2; Micah 5:4; Galatians 1:4. God saves through, by means of, the one whom he sent. (Isaiah 61:1,2; John 3:16,17; Romans 5:21; Galatians 4:4,5; 1 John 2:2; 4:9,10) Nothing in Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is definitely nothing in this verse that says that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is more than one person, or that God is three persons, etc.

Matthew 1:22,23
Many like to misread/misquote Matthew 1:22,23 as though it says that Jesus is God (THEOS) with us. The reference is to the meaning of the name Immanuel, not to Jesus himself. The name means "With us the God", or with the verb supplied, "With us is the God", or in common English syntax, "God is with us." The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was and still is with His people through Jesus.

Matthew does not call Jesus God, but he does refer to Isaiah's prophecies which show that the Messiah was to be called by the name Immanuel, which means "God is with us". The fact that this name refers to Jesus' God as being with His people, does not mean that we need imagine and assume, as some do, that Matthew said that Jesus is God with us.

Matthew 2:11
There is no hint at all in this scripture that these wise men thought they bowing before Jehovah, the Most High. They bowed before Jesus as being a king, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Matthew 3:1-3
Nothing here says that Jesus is Jehovah for whom the people were being told to prepare the way. John the Baptist was the one foretold to deliver this message to the children of Israel, which he did by preaching repentance to Jehovah. See our study: The Sent Messenger and the Message

Matthew 3:16,17

Matthew 4:7,10
Jesus was not saying that he is Jehovah, the God of Israel. He certainly wasn't saying that he is Jehovah, the God of Satan.

Matthew 12:25
Many like to imagine and assume that because Jesus knew their thoughts that this means that Jesus is God Almighty.  There is nothing, however, in the scriptures that says that God cannot give to his son the ability to know what others are thinking not unless God's son is God Almighty. Isaiah 11:1-3 indicates that Jesus has this special ability because of Jehovah's spirit being upon him. In the context, Jesus speaks of doing works by means of the spirit of his God. -- Matthew 12:28.

Matthew 14:33
Nothing in this scripture says that those in the boat thought that they bowing before the Almighty Jehovah. Those in the boat bowed before Jesus, not as being God (the Supreme Being), but as the son of God, the one whom God anointed and sent. -- Isaiah 61:1,2; John 8:42; 17:1,3; Galatians 4:6; 1 John 4:9,10.

Matthew 18:20
Many read into Jesus' words recorded in this scripture that Jesus was claiming to be omnipresent, present everywhere, an attribute attributed only to God Almighty. Thus, it is claimed that Jesus is God Almighty. God has certainly exalted Jesus to a bodily glory that surely includes the ability to be present in more than one place. **** scriptures need to be added Such would be needed for Jesus to do the work God has given him to do. Nothing in this means that we need to imagine and assume that Jesus is God Almighty. 

Matthew 21:9
{Matthew 21:9} The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah! Hosanna in the highest!" -- RLIV.

Nothing in this verse says that the people thought Jesus was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These people recognized Jesus as being the one who was to come in the name of Jehovah; they were not claiming that Jesus was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. -- Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Psalm 118:26.

Jesus did indeed come in the name of his God and Father (Micah 5:4; Ephesians 1:3); he did not come in his own name. -- John 5:43.



Matthew 22:43-45
It is claimed that here David calls Jesus "God". (Who Says Jesus Christ Is God?) David certainly does not call Jesus "God". The word "God" does not even appear in these verses. David's "Lord" (Jesus) is distinguished from being Jehovah, since David's Lord sits at the right hand of Jehovah.
See:
The Lord of David
Did David Claim the Messiah is Jehovah?

Matthew 23:34

Matthew 23:34 - Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them will you kill and crucify; and some of them will you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city. -- World English.

There is definitely nothing in the verse wherein Jesus presents himself as being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jesus could be referring to himself in his prehuman condition as being the Word of his God, or he could be quoting his God.

In verse 39, instead of claiming to be Jehovah, he refers to himself as the one coming in the name of Jehovah. -- Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Psalm 118:26; Isaiah 61:1,2.

****** We need to write a study related to this scripture and Luke 11:49.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! 

Again, we do find anything stated in which Jesus claims to be Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

Matthew 24:36

Matthew 27:18

Matthew 27:46

Matthew 28:9
Nothing in this verse identifies Jesus as being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The scripture does not say that the disciples thought that they were bowing before God Almighty, but rather that they were bowing before the son of Jehovah of Hosts, to whom Jehovah of Hosts gives the throne of David. -- Isaiah 9:6,7; Luke 1:32.

Matthew 28:18
See our study: All Power

Matthew 28:19

Mark 2:5-11

Luke 1:17

Luke 1:35

Luke  1:37

Luke 2:11

Luke 6:8

John 1:1
John 1:1 does not identify the Logos as being the "one God" of 1 Corinthians 8:6, but rather it identifies the Logos as having been with the "one God" of 1 Corinthians 8:6, as verified by John 17:1,3,5. Common sense should tell us that the Greek word often transliterated as THEOS is not being used of the Logos in the same sense as the "one God, of whom are all." The problem is that most trinitarians like to ignore the Biblical usage of "god" as applied to others than the Supreme Being or false gods, at least when it comes to any application of such to Jesus.

John 1:3

John 1:10-12

John 1:14
He who was THEOS (mighty one) of John 1:1 was made flesh; he was no longer with the mighty celestial, spiritual glory that he had before he became flesh. He now had only the terrestrial bodily glory of flesh, a glory that is a little lower than of the angels. -- 1 Corinthians 15:39-41; Hebrews 2:9; 5:7.

John 2:24,25

John 3:16, 17
Only one person is being presented as being "God" and Jesus is being depicted as having been sent by that that one person.  -- John 3:17,34; 4:34; 17:1,3.

John 4:24
Jesus here speaks, not of himself as being "God", but rather he speaks of his Father as God. Only one person is presented as being "God".
God is a Spirit
Ananias Lied to God, Not to Men


John 5:23
Jesus did not say that one should honor him as being God Almighty, but that one should honor him because his God and Father had given him the authority to judge and raise the dead, etc. Similar usage: Luke 6:36; John 13:34.
Related Studies


John 5:17,18


John 5:19
One would really have to twist Jesus' words around to make them mean the opposite of what he was saying in order to "see" in this verse that Jesus was calling himself "God". In reality, he was denying that he was the "only true God" (John 17:1,3), the "one God" of whom are all. -- 1 Corinthians 8:6.

John 5:20
There is definitely nothing in this verse in which Jesus calls himself "God", or equal to God. Jesus here attributes his God and Father (Ephesians 1:3) as being the source of the works that Jesus does. -- Micah 5:4.

John 5:21

John 5:22

John 5:23

John 5:24

John 5:25

John 5:26

John 6:28,29

John 6:35

John 6:38

John 6:63

John 8:44 - Like God a Satanic lie? 

John 8:24

John 8:58,59

John 9:35-38

John 10:28,29

John 10:30-39




John 14:23





John 15:26

John 17:3

John 17:5
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. -- World English

"Your" and "you" is the only true God of John 17:3. Jesus does not say that he was God Almighty, nor does he say that he had a glory that was equal to the only true God.

Here Jesus asks to receive the glory that had once had when he was with the only true God before the world existed. I have no reason to think otherwise.

Jesus evidently did not have this glory at the time that he said this prayer, else why would he ask his God and Father for this glory? And since he speaks of this as a glory that he once had before the world of mankind was made, then he was asking for a glory that he once had to be given to him again.


John 20:17

John 20:28
There is definitely no indication that Thomas thought that the body of flesh and bones standing before him was God Almighty.
See our studies:
Did Thomas Refer to Jesus as the Supreme Being?


John 20:31

John 21:17



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