Antonio Piñero answers the question about what image Jesus de Nazarte had of himself. It is one of the most complex issues. In the first century, biographies are external biographies, they did not get into psychological interiors. However, the Gospels give us a clue as to how Jesus interpreted himself. The first thing to keep in mind is that Jesus believed himself a Jew belonging to the chosen people. In the Gospels Jesus appears with the title of son of man, this question is really thorny: What can we understand with it? The analyzes lead us to think that the expression The Son of Man has at least three meanings: 1- In some cases it is the same as saying the son of a human being. It simply means me as a human being. 2- Son of man who will die and rise again 3- Son of man who will come as universal judge of the living and the dead. Did Jesus really call himself the son of man? The whole of the Gospels makes it difficult to think that Jesus considered himself a divine being but we cannot find an absolute answer on this point since the theories of historians are diverse. What we can think with greater certainty is that Jesus considered himself a prophet, in the words of Antonio Piñero, very likely if Jesus had to define himself he would do so as a prophet. In the Gospels the designation of Jesus as Messiah also appears and here again there is no consensus among researchers. In none of the first three Gospels did Jesus proclaim himself Messiah. Everything indicates that Jesus never got involved in political matters. Therefore, we do not know exactly if Jesus considered himself the Messiah, when the Gospel of John talks about it in chapter four in the conversation with the Samaritan woman it is probably an ideal scene, if the Messiah was considered it was only at the end of his life driven by some of his disciples. Finally, did Jesus consider himself the son of God? There is no commentator on the Gospels who can deduce it. If Jesus believed himself to be the son of God, it was in the sense that a prophet is a son of the Father, not as a physical son of God.
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What can we know about the human features of Jesus? - First part
What can we know about the human features of Jesus? - Second part
Was Jesus married?
Was Jesus aware of his death?
What is the prevailing philosophical background in the first century?
Could Jesus be homosexual?
Was Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem?
Religious keys to 1st century Judaism that help us understand Jesus
Sociopolitical keys of Judea in the first century
What was the office of Jesus?
Was Jesus a Jewish Nationalist?
Was Jesus a bigamist?
What aspects of Christianity appear in previous pagan traditions?
What do we know about the lost years of Jesus?
Was the Virgin a myth that came from older cultures?
What do we know about the Virgin Mary?
Where does the story of the Magi come from?
What is the origin of Christmas?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
