8 Bible Verses about Called Himself The Christ

But Jesus kept silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “By the living God I place You under oath: tell us if You are the Messiah, the Son of God!”

But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

They said, “If You are the Messiah, tell us.”

But He said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe.

“I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

They began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is the Messiah, a King.”

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”