It means Jesus is fully God. The Apostle Paul tells us, “in Him (Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” (Colossians 2:9 NKJV) One of His names given in the gospels is ‘Immanuel, which is translated, “God with us.”’ (Matthew 1:23 NKJV) Jesus Himself declared He was God when He was being examined by Jewish leaders. He was asked, “Are You then the Son of God?” So He said to them, “You rightly say that I am.” (Luke 22:70 NKJV) John Wesley in his commentary makes the following comment, “They all said, Art thou then the Son of God?—Both these, the Son of God, and the Son of man, were known titles of the Messiah, the one taken from his divine, and the other from his human nature.”1 another place Jesus claims His own deity is in John 8:58 “Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” (NKJV) This I am statement is a reference to one of the names of God (See Exodus 3:14), the Bible Knowledge Commentary says, “Jesus then affirmed His superiority over the prophets and Abraham. Abraham came into being; but when he was born, Jesus was already existing. I Am is a title of Deity…the Jews’ response (v. 59) showed they understood it that way. Jesus, because of His equality with God… existed from all eternity.2 This means Jesus is not just another man; He is the eternal God, He has all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18 NKJV). He is worthy of worship and praise and shares all the same attributes of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
- John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, Fourth American Edition (New York: J. Soule and T. Mason, 1818), 209.
- Edwin A. Blum, “John,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 306–307.