Q:

30. Did everyone in the Bible think Jesus was God?

Jesus is like a one-of-a-kind coin among billions and billions. Only Jesus perfectly fits every promise that God made about a Savior!

A:

It’s sad, but not everyone who met Jesus recognized him as God’s Son, who came to be the Savior of the world. They should have! After all, God had said for hundreds of years that he would send a Savior to free his people from sin. The Old Testament has many special promises called prophecies. Long before Jesus was born, these prophecies described what the Savior would be like. He would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), do miracles (Isaiah 35:5-6), be betrayed by a friend (Psalm 41:9), have his hands and feet pierced (Psalm 22:16), suffer and die for our sins (Isaiah 53:5), and rise from the dead (Psalm 16:10).

Jesus perfectly fit not just a few, but hundreds of prophecies spoken hundreds of years before his birth. To anybody willing to see, this was powerful proof that Jesus was who he claimed to be!

Even in his own land and among his own people, he was not accepted. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

JOHN 1:12