Then they all said, “Are You then the Son of God?” So He said to them, “You rightly say that I am.” And they said, “What further testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth.” Luke 22:70-71
Christmas is about the Son of God becoming a man. Jesus the Man is the Son of God. We call this the Incarnation.
When Gabriel informed Mary that she would be the mother of the human Jesus, he told her “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)
Years later, Jesus asked the disciples, “Who do you say I that am?” Peter affirmed Jesus’ deity with his famous reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” If Peter had been wrong, Jesus would have corrected him, but rather than correcting him, Jesus commended Peter.
At the end of His earthly ministry, when on trial (Luke 22:70-71), the Jewish Sanhedrin, asked Jesus, “Are You then the Son of God?” To which He replied, “You rightly say that I am.” They understood His claim to be the Son of God, and wrongly found Him guilty of blasphemy.
What is the significance of all of this? That Jesus is God, and therefore sinless, makes Him uniquely qualified to be our Savior. No mere man could die for other people’s sins since he would have his own sins to answer for. As we celebrate Christmas in the coming month, let us meditate on this phenomenal miracle, that God the Son became a man so that He could save His people from our sins.