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 honour the  Father”);  538  (when  in  response  to  Peter’s  confession: “Thou  art  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God”, Jesus answered:  “Blessed  art  thou,  Simon,  for  flesh  and  blood hath not  revealed  it  to  thee,  but  My  Father  who  is  in  heaven. . . And I will  give  to  thee  the  keys  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven”  &amp;c.); 553;  578  (“It  is  He — the  Son  of  God — who  speaketh  with thee”); 589  (“I  and  the  Father  are  one. . . the Father  is  in  Me and  I in  the  Father”);  595  (“This  sickness  is. . . for the  glory of God,  that  the  Son  of  God  may  be  glorified  by  it ... I am the resurrection and  the  life”  &amp;c.);  644  (“Father,  glorify  Thy Son. . . glorify Thou  Me  with  the  glory  which  I had  before  the world was”);  662  (Jesus  attested  on  oath:  “I  am  the  Christ, the Son  of  the  Blessed  God,  and  you  shall  see  the  Son  of  Man sitting on  the  right  hand  of  the  power  of  God”);  662  (To  the question of  the  Sanhedrim:  “Art  Thou  therefore  the  Son  of God ?”  Jesus  answered: “I  am”);  693  (“Father,  forgive  them”  &amp;c.); 696  (“Amen,  I say  to  thee,  this  day  shalt  thou  be  with  Me in  Paradise”);  700  (“Father,  into  Thy  hands  I commend  My spirit”);  722  (“Receive  ye  the  Holy  Ghost;  whose  sins  ye  shall forgive” &amp;c.);  722  (Jesus  accepted  the  homage  of  Thomas when he  cried  out:  “My  Lord  and  my  God!”);  730  (“All power is  given  to  Me  in  heaven  and  earth. . . and behold  I am with  you  all  days  even  unto  the  consummation  of  the  world”).

2. by  His  divine  works. See “Third  Article”  under  “Miracles”, 816.

3. by  His  Blood,  for  He  died  for  the  confession  of  His  divinity 661 675  694.

d) by  the  apostles:  533  (“We  have  believed  and  have  known  that Thou art  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  God”);  538  (Peter  confesses: “Thou art  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God”);  543  723  (the apostles were  witnesses  to  the  Transfiguration  and  Resurrection  of Jesus);  722  (Thomas  cries  out:  “My  Lord  and  My  God!”);  727 (Peter  says:  “Lord,  Thou  knowest  all  things”);  731  (St. John writes that “Jesus  Christ  is  the  Son  of  God”);  736  (the  disciples  pray  to Jesus  as  the  omniscient  Lord);  739  (Peter  preaches  that  “Jesus  was exalted to  the  right  hand  of  God,  and  had  sent  the  Holy  Ghost”); 742  (Peter  calls  Jesus  the  Son  of  God  and  the  Author  of  life);  755 (Stephen  testifies  to  the  divinity  of  Christ  by  his  vision,  his  prayer and his  blood);  766  (Paul  preaches  at  Damascus  that  “Jesus  is  the Son of  God”);  773  (Peter  preaches  at  Caesarea  that  “Jesus  is  the Judge of  the  living  and  the  dead”,  and  that  “through  His  name  all receive remission  of  sins”);  797  (testimony  of  St. Paul  to  the  divinity of  Christ);  803  (the  apostles  bore  witness  to  it  with  their blood).

e) by  the  Catholic  Church  736  762.