Great set of bible quotes, Lois.
But most of them do not come from the Synoptic Gospels. And those of Matthew are quite open to interpretation, don’t you think?
I am just reading a book of Ehrman: How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee.
The case seems clear. In the probable chronological order that the Gospels were written, Jesus becomes more and more godlike, culminating in John, where Jesus more or less is identified with God.
So I do not know exactly the fuzz john76 is making. Isn’t this normal knowledge of New Testament historians?