Who is Jesus?

John the Evangelist knew Jesus from the time he (John) was about 15 years old.  What did he, as an old man, believe about the One he knew as "Jesus"?

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.

...though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son, Who is at the Father's side, has made Him known.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.

For this reason, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him; not only was He breaking the Sabbeth, but he was even calling God his own Father, making Himself equal to God.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He is pleased to give it.

...that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.  He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

I am the Way (halakah), the Truth, and the Life.

The Word was with God and the Word was God.

If we accept the testimony of John, who died in exile for the sake of what he believed, we will have to acknowledge Jesus as "My Lord and My God," in the words of Thomas.  Jesus, Who rebuked Satan with the words, "The Lord is God, and Him only shalt thou worship," would not have accepted Thomas' words unless they were true.  Everywhere else in Scripture, when men fell down to worship angels or other men, they were told to arise, that the messenger was but a servant of the Most High.  Jesus, however, accepted the words of Thomas as factual:  "You believe because you have seen, but blessed are they who do not see and yet believe."  What more do we need to believe Him?