Yet, Jesus accepted worship on many occasions. The Syrophoenician woman bowed in worship at His feet. The leper that was healed worshipped Him. The blind man whom Christ healed in John 9 also worshipped Him. And of course, the disciples worshipped Him as God.

2. Jesus’ ability to forgive sin

Jesus not only taught the possibility of sins forgiven, but also He Himself forgave sin. In Mark 2 the Lord heals a man crippled with paralysis, but in an unusual twist He healed the man in a way to prove his power to forgive sin, which in turn proved His deity.

Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” —He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” (Mark 2:3-12)