What Are the Scriptures in the Jehovah Witnesses Watchtower Bible That Prove Jesus is God?
1) Direct answer
Yes. Even in the New World Translation, the Bible clearly shows that Jesus is God manifested in flesh.
2) Scriptural explanation (NWT wording/themes)
Direct confessions of Jesus as God
- John 20:28 — “Thomas answered him: ‘My Lord and my God!’” Jesus accepts this confession.
- Matthew 1:23 — “They will call his name Immanuel,” which means “With us is God.”
Jehovah-only passages applied to Jesus
- Isaiah 40:3 and Mark 1:3 — “Prepare the way of Jehovah” is fulfilled in the coming of Jesus.
- Isaiah 6:1 (Jehovah on the throne) and John 12:41 — “Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and he spoke about him” (the context is Jesus). Isaiah saw Jehovah’s glory; John says he saw Jesus’ glory.
- Joel 2:32 and Romans 10:9-13 — “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” In Romans 10 this saving confession is centered on Jesus as Lord.
- Psalm 102:25-27 (Jehovah, Creator of heavens and earth) and Hebrews 1:10-12 — Addressed to the Son: “You, O Lord, laid the foundations of the earth in the beginning…” The Son bears the work and titles of Jehovah.
Divine titles and honors given to Jesus
- Philippians 2:10-11 — “In the name of Jesus every knee should bend… and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,” echoing Isaiah 45:23 where Jehovah swears every knee will bend to Him.
- Revelation 1:17-18 — “I am the First and the Last… I became dead, but look! I am living forever.” The One called “First and Last” (a title of Jehovah in Isaiah 44:6) is the One who died and lives again—Jesus.
- Revelation 22:12-16 — “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last” and then “I, Jesus…” The eternal titles are intertwined with Jesus’ own testimony.
- John 5:23 — The Father’s purpose is “that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.” Equal honor belongs only to God.
Creator-identity applied to Jesus
- John 1:3 — “All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.”
- Isaiah 44:24 — “I, Jehovah, am doing everything… stretching out the heavens by myself.” If all things came through Jesus, and Jehovah created by Himself, the one Creator is revealing Himself through the Son.
Further clear witnesses
- 1 John 5:20 — “His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting.”
- Hebrews 13:8 with Malachi 3:6 — “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever,” matching Jehovah’s unchanging nature.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- If Isaiah says Jehovah alone created all things, and John says all things were made through Jesus, then the Creator working is Jehovah revealing Himself in and through the Son.
- If every knee must bow to Jehovah and the New Testament commands every knee to bow to Jesus, then the same divine honor belongs to Him.
- If Isaiah saw Jehovah’s glory, and John says Isaiah saw Jesus’ glory, then Jesus is Jehovah revealed.
- If Thomas calls Jesus “My Lord and my God” and Jesus blesses that faith, the testimony stands.
- It’s not two Gods, and not a second deity. The one God was manifested in the Son—God with us.
4) Reinforcing statement
Now notice, the Bible does not present three Gods or a lesser god. It shows one God making Himself known—above us as Father, with us in the Son, and in us as the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is that God revealed.
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Jesus on the authority of the Word
54-0217 §8
"The Jews seek sign, and the Greeks wisdom." You know the Scripture. Well, I would like to gather many thousand, as they got gathered now ... or, going to gather at Palestine, for the meeting. I believe the Jew once, in the same way of His Scriptures, be shown that Jehovah God was manifested in flesh. It's not any three gods; it's the same God, manifested in flesh, three dispensations. That's what stumbles him. And when he seen that to be a reality, he will accept it.
And when their eyes were opened, they knew Him
64-0416 §14
He was a man when He died on the cross crying for mercy. He was a man; but when He broke the seals of death, hell, and the grave, rose up on the third day, He proved He was more than a man. He was God in a man. No wonder every man that's ever amounted to anything believed that. All poets and everything that's ever amounted to anything believes that. That's right. He was more than a man; He was God. Now, God in His own Son built a body that He lived in, tabernacled, changed His strength. Just think, Jehovah laying i...
Jehovah-Jireh
61-0209 §14
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Leading of the Spirit of God
55-0807E §17
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God hiding Himself in simplicity
63-0412E §87
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