Jesus Is the Prophet
The following verses from the Bible tell us who Jesus really
is through his words and other testimony.
• John 9:17-19: Jesus said, “I am the prophet of God.” He
made miracles, such as to a boy who was born blind, and
the Jewish people denied him as a prophet.
• John 4:19: “The woman saith unto him, ‘Sir, I perceive
that thou art a prophet.’”
• John 4:25: “The woman saith unto him, ‘I know that
Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. When he is come,
he will tell us all things.’”
• John 4:26: “Jesus saith unto her, ‘I that speak unto thee
am he.’”
Luke 4:23-24 states: “Jesus said to them, ‘Surely you will
quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in
your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’
‘I tell you the truth,’” he continued. “‘No prophet is accepted in
his hometown.’” Jesus is comparing himself to the prophets. He
has put himself in the prophets’ category. If you go through Jesus’
words in the New Testament, you will notice that Jesus is always
trying to convince people to accept him as a person sent by God.
Unfortunately, during his lifetime, the majority of the people did
not even accept him as a prophet, which is painful. He never tried
to tell people that he was God. Rather, he always told people that
God, who was greater than him, had sent him.
Matthew 15:24 states: “He [Jesus] answered, ‘I was sent only
to the lost sheep of Israel.’” Jesus is saying, “I was sent by God.”
Here is the admission by him that he is not God and that he was
sent by someone else with the authority to send a messenger, that
messenger being Jesus. In the last phrase of this verse, in which
Jesus states “sent to the lost sheep of Israel,” we know that the
people of Israel had become wicked. That is why God sent Jesus
to them. If Jesus is God, then he was really a prejudiced God and
discriminating against other people on Earth at the time, which
included the Gentiles, and this represented the vast majority of the
populations. His mission, during his lifetime, was limited to one
tribe only. His mission was not a worldwide mission. How could
it be that God was dealing with one tribe only? There is no tribal
God or regional God or one for the Jews and one for the Christians
or one for white people and one for black people.
Acts 2:22-23 states: “Men of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth was a
man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs,
which God did among you, through him, as you yourselves know.
This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and
foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to
death by nailing him to the cross.” Here is clear text that God is
speaking in a form of criticizing the misbehaviors of the Jewish
people by clarifying to them essentially, “I sent to you a man.
Jesus is a prophet and has performed many miracles through Me.
‘God’ and your wicked people killed him on the cross.” The
conclusions of this verse are that Jesus is a human sent by God as
a prophet, and he is not God.
