go: chapter 1: the jesuses i have known, part four

in my final post interacting with this chapter of mclaren's generous orthodoxy, i want to reflect briefly on a final jesus i have known. yet another jesus revealed in scripture.
jesus 7: while teaching those following him about the life he offered them, jesus was accused of claiming to be greater than abraham, the father of the jews. "if i glorify myself," he answered, "my glory is nothing. it is my father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'he is our god.' but you have not known him. if i were to say that i do not know him, i would be a liar like you, but i do know him and i keep his word. your father abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. he saw it and was glad." this dumbfounded the jews even more. this jesus wasn't even fifty years old. how, they wondered, could he have seen abraham? jesus replied to them in a most striking and dangerous way: "truly, truly, i say to you, before abraham was, i am." with these simple words, jesus declared his divinity. the jews understood this. they knew who "i am" was. thus, they picked up stones intending to kill him for what they took as blasphemy in his claim to be god.

"We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father."
(Nicene Creed)

certainly a jesus worth knowing.