Son of God

^'Say ye of Him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.'

John 10:36-38

Anyone who searches the Gospels for words from Jesus in which He calls Himself the Son of God will only find them in very veiled terms. Even in the Gospel of John, which portrays Jesus as the Son of God, Jesus' declaration that He is the Son of God is extremely rare. The instance above is one of those rare statements. Almost everywhere Jesus calls Himself “Son of Man,” almost nowhere “Son of God.” What can we learn from this?

This shows us the character of God. He doesn't force Himself to the forefront. He doesn't demand attention. He doesn't lay it on thick. Any need for self-assertion is foreign to Him. Look at creation. Beautiful, perfectly balanced, and infinitely complex. But nowhere in creation is there a single signature, explicit proof, document, or unambiguous reference to the Maker. On the contrary, the universe seems to be designed to hide the very hand that made it. But looking at the endless ingenuity inherent in the universe, our solar system, and all nature on Earth, it is inevitable that the Architect of our universe possesses infinite powers. So it is with Jesus in the Gospels. Several times in the Gospel of John, we hear Him say that they must believe Him for the works He does, if they cannot take Him at His word.

Only a few realized this. Occasionally, we hear people draw the only possible conclusion. When Jesus asks His disciples who they say He is, He is given the answer, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets." When He then asks Peter who he says that Jesus is, then, for the one of the very few times in all the Gospels, Peter explicitly confesses: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Furthermore, Jesus only hints at Who He is with a simple question. When the rich young man comes to Jesus, calling Him: 'Good Master', Jesus answers: 'why do you call Me good? There is none good but one, that is, God." In this answer, he left it to the rich young man to draw his conclusion.

In one of David's Psalms, David calls the Messiah, who would one day succeed him and occupy his throne forever, “Lord.” And then Jesus asks the religious elite of his day: “If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be his Son?”