That He might be a prophet every way complete, it was necessary He should be God, and also that He should be man; For unless He had been God, He could never have perfectly understood the will of God; and unless He had been man, He could not suitably have unfolded it in His own person to men.¹

1. Deuteronomy 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. Acts 3:22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 
   Note: That Jesus Christ is God is wonderfully and clearly expressed in the Scriptures. He is called the mighty God, (Isaiah 9:6). That Word was God, (John 1:1). Christ, who is God over all, (Rom 9:5). God manifested in the flesh, (1 Tim. 3:16). The same is very God, (1 John 5:20). He is the first, (Rev. 1:8). He gives being to all things, and without Him was nothing made, (John 1:2). He forgives sins, (Matt. 9:6). He is before Abraham, (John 8:58). He was and is, and ever will be the same, (Heb. 13:8). He is always with His to the end of the world, (Matt. 28:20). Which could not be said of Jesus Christ, if He were not God. And to the Son He says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, (Heb. 1:8, John 1:18). 
   Also, Christ is not only perfectly God, but perfect man, made of a woman, (Gal. 4:4). Made of the seed of David, (Rom 1:3). Coming out of the loins of David, (Acts 2:30). Of Jesse and Judah, (Acts 13:23). In that the children were partakers of flesh and blood He Himself likewise took part with them, (Heb. 2:14). He took not on Him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, (verse 16). So that we are bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh, (Eph. 5:30). So that He that sanctifies, and they that are sanctified are all of one, (Heb.2:11. See Acts 3:22, Deut. 18:15; Heb. 1:1). ↩︎