 I hear people say all the time, well, Jesus never claimed to be God. And I wonder what in the world they're reading. Because he claimed it many times in the Gospels. As a matter of fact, you read through the Gospel of John, you'll find several times that the people took up stones to stone him because they're saying, you are making yourself equal with God. They understood the claims that he were making. They understood what Jesus meant when he said, I and my Father are one. They understood what he meant when he said,