The four Gospels as a whole agree that Jesus is God’s Son and that as the Son, he is the divine agent par excellence, and even part of the divine identity. John’s claim that Jesus is “equal with God” (John 5:18) and “one with the Father” (10:18) is simply verbalizing what is already assumed by the Synoptics Gospels, namely, that Jesus has a unique filial relationship with Israel’s God and Jesus possessed an authority equal to that of God.
