Question · FaithLogic
Where does Jesus say "worship me"?
He does not issue the command in those words — but he consistently receives worship and never refuses it, which is the decisive point. Faithful figures in Scripture (Peter, Paul, an angel in Revelation) refuse worship immediately. Jesus accepts it.
In more depth
The test of whether worship is proper is not whether someone demands it but whether they accept or refuse it when it is offered.
When Cornelius falls at Peter's feet, Peter pulls him up: "Stand up; I too am a man" (Acts 10:25–26). When John falls before an angel, the angel says, "You must not do that... worship God" (Revelation 19:10). Refusing worship is the reflex of every creature who fears God.
The disciples worship him after he walks on water: "Truly you are the Son of God" (Matthew 14:33). The healed blind man worships him (John 9:38). Thomas addresses him as "My Lord and my God" (John 20:28) and is commended, not corrected. After the resurrection "they worshipped him" (Matthew 28:17), and in Hebrews 1:6 God says of the Son, "Let all God's angels worship him."
Jesus, who kept the Law perfectly and taught "worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve" (Matthew 4:10), receives worship repeatedly and never once deflects it. Either he broke his own command, or he is the proper object of it.
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