Son of God (sources)

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This page includes ancient sources dealing with the phrase and title, Son of God.

Jewish sources==

Psalms

Psalm 2:7 -- You are my son: today I have begotten you

Psalm 45:7-8 -- Your throne, o elohim, endures forever and ever… Therefore God, your God, has anointed you

2 Samuel

2 Samuel 7:13-14 = 1 Chronicles 17:12-13 -- Thus says the Lord… I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a Son to me.

Book of Sirach

Sirach 4:10 (Greek version) -- Be a father to orphans, and be like a husband to their mother, you will then be like a son of the Most High, [Hebrew: God will call you His son], and he will love you more than does your mother.

Book of Jubilees

Jub 1:24-25 -- “They will do my commandments. I shall be a father to them, and they will be sons to me. And they will all be called sons of the living God” (1:24-25).

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

TestLevi 4:2 -- The Most High has given heed to your prayer that you be delivered from wrongdoing, that you should become a son to him, as minister and priest in His presence.

Early Christian sources

Romans

Paul, Romans 8:14 -- All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God

Gospel of Mark

Mark 15:39, and Luke 23:47 -- Truly that man was a son of God (Mark) = Truly that man was a righteous person (Luke)

Gospel of John

Gospel of John 1:12 -- To all who received him, who believed in his name, [Jesus] gave the power to become children of God