For me, you have to interprete scripture as a whole.
I agree.
The Old Testament makes it clear that God is immaterial, eternal, anyone who even sees Him will die, and He has a specific name -Yahwah.
God is Spirit and we cannot look upon Him and live, but the Son (Jesus) came to earth veiled in the flesh of man, so we could look upon Him. By the way, He was NOT born into sin. He was born into a sinful world, but because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Jesus was born without sin because the sin nature is past down through man (Adam). Jesus was tempted like us, but He never sinned because He is God. Even in the OT, the pre-incarnate Christ came to earth on more than one occasion. He walked with Adam in the cool of the day. He came to Abraham to announce that Sarah would give birth to the promised son (Isaac) and that He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He wrestled with Jacob and changed His name to Israel.
Therefore, for Jesus to claim he was God, as the Jews presumed, would be foolishness and blasphemy.
It was neither foolish nor blasphemy. Some did not recognize who Jesus was because they did not know the scriptures. Jesus even told the leaders of Israel this. Many did believe on Him (and still do today).
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. (Mark 13:32)
Jesus is fully God, but He was also fully man. He is referring here to his humanity, but being God He does know evertything. He is also pointing the people's thinking to God, so that once they understand that He is God, then they will understand that He knows everything.
