In the 4 gospels, Christ referred to God as His Father at least 73 times. Thereby claiming Himself to be the Son of God.

Luke 4:17-21
And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

This passage in Isaiah has long been held to be referring to the Messiah. So when He proclaimed that this scripture had been fulfilled by Him, He was proclaiming Himself to be the Messiah.

John 9:35-37
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" He answered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?" And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you."

I don't think He could get any plainer than this. The man who had been healed asked plainly who was the Son of God that he might believe on Him. And Christ plainly answered, "Me."

Mark 14:61-62
Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

If the last passage left any doubt as to who Christ claimed to be, this one removes it. When the High Priest asked, "Are you the Christos (Christ)". You have to remember this term The Christ was to be reserved for the prophesied Messiah. The one Isaiah mentions in chapter 7. To which Christ responded, "I AM." Some Bibles have these 2 words in all caps, why? By saying this the way that He did, He not only agreed that He is the Son of God, but that He is Ego eimi, The self-existent One. What is the significance of this? It is the very thing that God told Moses to tell the children of Israel when they asked who sent him. He told Moses to tell them that I AM sent him.

John 8:54-58
Jesus answered, "If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, 'I do not know Him,' I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

Jesus not only proclaimed that God is His Father, but that before Abraham was even born, He was already the self-existent one. Here Jesus once again uses the term Ego eimi. You have to remember that this was a term that to the Jew was equivalent to saying that one was Jehovah’s equal, so Jesus was saying that when they spoke to Him, they were speaking to God. For He and God were one in the same.

John 10:30
I and My Father are one.

When you read this passage with the previous one in mind, it makes more sense. For when He said that He and the Father are one (esmen – forever remain in unity), you can see why He would use the same term that God used when He was speaking to Moses.

John 14:6, John 10
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Christ says that He is the only way, the only truth, the only life. For He said that no one comes to the Father but by Him. In the original Greek it would be better said that not even one person can come before the Father without Jesus. This is a hard statement. We want to think that everyone is going to heaven. But Jesus says that He is the only way to be in the presence of the Father. In John 10, He says that He is the only door into heaven and that anyone who tries to come or claims to know another way in is a thief and a robber. We would think a thief and a robber are the same thing, but in the Greek they are completely different. A thief is kleptes, one who takes something not belonging to them by stealth. This would describe someone who is trying to come into heaven by a road or a means other than acceptance of Jesus as their Lord. But a robber, or lestes, is one who takes something not belonging to them by violence. The men who beat up the person in the parable of the good Samaritan were robbers, or lestes. So to me this is talking about someone who teaches another way to get to heaven. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." (Eph 2:8-9)

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Christ is proclaiming Himself to be the Son of God and the only way to the Father. The Light of God, Jesus, came into this world but the world would rather remain in darkness than to have the light. (John3:19) But He doesn’t stop with the world when He walked it. But rather, He is calling today as well. In Revelation 3:20, Christ says that He stands at the door and knocks if anyone will open to Him, He will come in and have fellowship with them.

Part 5 - What Do You Say About Him?