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I don’t usually like to list so many references because people just don’t read them but these are relevant to my answer so I hope you will read them. Jesus openly and clearly ***umed the prerogatives of deity. He claimed to have control over the eternal destinies of people (John 8:24; Luke 12:8-9; John 5:22, 27-29), to have authority over the divinely-ordained ins***ution of the Sabbath (Matt. 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5), to have the power to answer prayer (John 14:13-14; Acts 7:59; 9:10-17), and to have the right to receive worship and faith due to God alone (Matt. 21:16; John 14:1; John 5:23). He also ***umed the ability to forgive sins (Mark 2:5-11)--something which, as His outraged opponents correctly understood, only God can do (v. 7).
Jesus also called God's angels (Gen. 28:12; Luke 12:8-9; 15:10; John 1:51) His angels (Matt. 13:41; 24:30-31); God's elect (Luke 18:7; Rom. 8:33) His elect (Matt. 24:30-31); and God's kingdom (Matt. 12:28; 19:24; 21:31; Mark 1:15; Luke 4:43; John 3:3) His kingdom (Matt. 13:41; 16:28; Luke 1:33; 2 Tim. 4:1).
In John 8:58 we read this,” Jesus said to them, “Most ***uredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” In John 20:28 Thomas refers to Jesus as “my Lord and my God” and he is not rebuked by Jesus.
All of the above scripture shows that Jesus Christ claimed absolute equality with God. Thus He could say, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30); "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me" (John 12:45); and "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (14:9-10). And thus we can conclude that "in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:9), and we can worship Him accordingly as "our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus" (***us 2:13). These are not mistakes or verses taken out of context but the truth of God’s word.