honour the Father”); 538 (when in response to Peter’s confession: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”, Jesus answered: “Blessed art thou, Simon, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but My Father who is in heaven . . . And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven” &c.); 553; 578 (“It is He — the Son of God — who speaketh with thee”); 589 (“I and the Father are one . . . the Father is in Me and I in the Father”); 595 (“This sickness is . . . for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it ... I am the resurrection and the life” &c.); 644 (“Father, glorify Thy Son . . . glorify Thou Me with the glory which I had before the world was”); 662 (Jesus attested on oath: “I am the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God, and you shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God”); 662 (To the question of the Sanhedrim: “Art Thou therefore the Son of God ?” Jesus answered: “I am”); 693 (“Father, forgive them” &c.); 696 (“Amen, I say to thee, this day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise”); 700 (“Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit”); 722 (“Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins ye shall forgive” &c.); 722 (Jesus accepted the homage of Thomas when he cried out: “My Lord and my God!”); 730 (“All power is given to Me in heaven and earth . . . and behold I am with you all days even unto the consummation of the world”).
2. by His divine works. See “Third Article” under “Miracles”, 816.
3. by His Blood, for He died for the confession of His divinity 661 675 694.
d) by the apostles: 533 (“We have believed and have known that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God”); 538 (Peter confesses: “Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God”); 543 723 (the apostles were witnesses to the Transfiguration and Resurrection of Jesus); 722 (Thomas cries out: “My Lord and My God!”); 727 (Peter says: “Lord, Thou knowest all things”); 731 (St. John writes that “Jesus Christ is the Son of God”); 736 (the disciples pray to Jesus as the omniscient Lord); 739 (Peter preaches that “Jesus was exalted to the right hand of God, and had sent the Holy Ghost”); 742 (Peter calls Jesus the Son of God and the Author of life); 755 (Stephen testifies to the divinity of Christ by his vision, his prayer and his blood); 766 (Paul preaches at Damascus that “Jesus is the Son of God”); 773 (Peter preaches at Caesarea that “Jesus is the Judge of the living and the dead”, and that “through His name all receive remission of sins”); 797 (testimony of St. Paul to the divinity of Christ); 803 (the apostles bore witness to it with their blood).
e) by the Catholic Church 736 762.
