Passges 01 : Divinity of Jesus

'And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.' -- Yeshua/Jesus, Gospel of St. John (17:5)

Doubtlessly, one of the most exquisite passages in the New Testament. Here Yeshua is re-iterating and establishing His eternal relationship to the Father - He is confirming that He, Yeshua, is the I Am (God), for He has existed in eternity before all time. Critics often object that Yeshua/Jesus never claimed to be God. This is not true. The above verse is but one of many where Jesus clearly states that He is God - that He, and the Father, are One.  In John (8:48), Jesus once again affirms, 'Before Abraham was, I Am.' - testifying to the fact that He had always existed and that He, Jesus, is the same Person as YHWH (I Am), r simply, God.

The above passage from St. John (17:5) foreshadows the death of St. Steven, where, whilst being stoned to death, St. Steven has a vision of Jesus seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven.

Likewise, Jesus' words in John (17:4) are re-affirmed in the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John (1: 14): The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.' And shortly thereafter in John (1: 17-18), St. John affirms: 'For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.'

And John (1: 29-30) in the words of John the Baptist: ''Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’;.'

Through these passages, John the Beloved, John the Baptist, and Jesus Himself affirm His existence prior to the formation of time -- That He, Yeshua, had always existed with, as One with, God the Father [YHWH].

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