And they said many other things against him, blaspheming Him.
If Jesus was not God, you could not blaspheme Him. But since He is, that is what Luke records happened in this incident. Whether those doing the blaspheming recognized what they were doing or not is less germane than seeing that Luke, in retrospect, reports what they were, in fact, doing -- blaspheming Jesus.
There are many proof texts demonstrating that Jesus is God, but additionally, much of what is written doesn't make sense unless Jesus' divinity is assumed as an underlying truth.
Colossians 3:23-24 is another example.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Paul's argument is simple: when you work, work as though you are working for God knowing that He is the one who will pay your wages when it's all said and done. He has the inheritance and exists in eternity future where He will give it to you. When you do this, you are serving Jesus, because He is God. Thus the admonition and recognition that all service done for God is service for Jesus only makes sense if Jesus and God are not in competition, but are, in fact, the same.
Or even more simply, we work for the Lord and expect our wages from the Lord. That Lord is named Jesus Christ.
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