The scriptures are full of references to the deity of Christ. The doctrine is so pervasive and entwined in the scriptures. It can't even be translated out of it, though some have tried.  Many direct verses can be quoted which show us that Jesus is God, both in His own words and in those of the Apostles. The scripture is also full of indirect references to His deity

Did Jesus claim to be God?  Absolutely.  He claimed to be Jehovah, the "I Am" of Exodus 3:14, when He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) The Jews who listened to Jesus understood His claim to deity (John 5:18, 8:59, 10:33).  He claimed to be the express image of God (Col. 2:9, Heb.1: 3) in John 8:19, 12:45 and 14:9.  He claimed the same omniscience as God the Father (John 10:15) and claimed complete oneness with God the Father (John 10:30).  He claimed the same honour as God the Father: "All men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father." (John 5:23)  Jesus did, in fact, accept worship on numerous occasions (Matt. 14:33, 28:9 and many others), something reserved only for God as Jesus Himself said (Matt. 4:10).  Compare the way the apostles and the angels reacted when they were worshipped in Acts 14:11-15 and Rev. 19:10, 22:8-9.  Jesus only supported the scribe's conclusion that He made the claim to be God in Mark 2:5-7 when He proclaimed the man's sins forgiven and then healed him.  Further, Jesus asked us to pray in His name, and that He would answer our prayers (John 14:13).  He also asked us to baptize in His name (Matt. 28:19) and to gather together in His name Matt. 18:20.   

To be sure, Jesus was a man, but He was also God come in the flesh.

See the following verses:

The Christ, born in Israel, is the Mighty God and Everlasting Father:

Isaiah. 9:6 

The Christ of the seed of David is called Jehovah:

Jeremiah. 23:5-6 

Jesus, the Word, was with God, and was God:

John 1:1

Note: Not a god as the so-called ‘Jehovah Witnesses’ claim. This would mean that there are two Gods.  The indefinite article is  not in the Greek Text.

 Everything created was created by the Lord Jesus, the Word, and nothing created exists that was not created by the Lord Jesus.

John 1:3 

Jesus is the image of the invisible God:

Col. 1:15 

All the fullness of the Godhead dwelled in the person of Christ:

Col. 2:9 

Paul calls Jesus Christ the Great God and our Saviour:

Titus 2:13 

The writer of Hebrews says that Jesus was the brightness of the glory of God, the express image of His person, and also upholds all things by the word of His power:

Heb. 1:3

 John says that the Son - Jesus Christ is the True God and Eternal Life:   

1 John 5: 20  

Compare the verses of the Old Testament below, which show that the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus of the New Testament, is one and the same as Jehovah.
 

The Creator:

The I Am:

Isaiah saw Jesus' glory when He saw the glory of Jehovah of Hosts:

Matthew and Luke say that John the Baptist prepared the way the Lord Jesus; Isaiah says it was the way of Jehovah:

 In Isaiah, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear to Jehovah.  In Philippians, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear to Jesus:

In Zechariah, Jehovah says they shall look on Me whom they pierced; in John, it says they shall look on Jesus whom they pierced:

In Psalm 97, all of the angels are instructed to worship Jehovah; the writer of Hebrews applies this to Jesus:

 Numbers say the Israelites spake against God, Jehovah; Paul in 1 Corinthians says the Israelites tempted Christ:

The Christ is born in Bethlehem, but He is also an eternal being whose existence was from everlasting:

 The Son is called God:

The Creator and Eternal one, Jesus, in Hebrews 1 is the same Creator, Eternal God in Psalm 102:

Jehovah of Hosts is the First and the Last; so is Jesus:

The First and the Last is Jehovah of Hosts, the First and Last is the Alpha and Omega, therefore the Alpha and Omega is Jehovah of Hosts.  Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, and therefore He is Jehovah of Hosts:

OTHER INDIRECT TESTIMONY TO THE DEITY OF CHRIST

Besides, the direct statements that Jesus is God see how the bible attributes to Jesus the attributes of God, such as:

The deity of the Lord should be more than a dry fact to us. Our magnificent Lord came here to this earth, fashioning Himself as a man. (In John 13, we see Him taking the lowly place of a servant by laying aside his garments and kneeling down to wash the disciples’ feet. However, by taking this stoop, He never ceased to be what He always was. In verse 13 He said, ‘ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well, for so I am. If I then being your Lord and Master have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. Likewise, when he took the form of servant He never ceased to be what He always was – God). His submission led Him eventually to the death of the cross. He left that place of glory that He had with the Father, giving it up for us.  How our hearts should melt before the love and grace of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!  He came here to display all the glory of God, to reveal the Father, and please Him here.

Read the scriptures, and see the Father exalting the Son, and the Son exalting the Father, the Spirit not speaking of Himself, but of the Son.  It's a glorious fact, the Tri-unity of God.  These same characteristics of the Trinity should be found in us.  He has put Christians in a community, the body of Christ, and we should function in like manner as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, each esteeming the other better than themselves, in honour, preferring one another, etc.  God is a fundamentally relational being, and we are as well.  We can't make it without others.

The fact that Christ was God and man at the same time is hard to understand.  However, we have analogy for this kind of thinking in the creation.  Those who are familiar with physics know that everything in the physical universe is made up of energy and matter, as Einstein discovered. Some things in the universe are energy, and travel as waves, and some things in the universe are matter, and act as particles. Particles are affected by gravity, and waves are not. Particles (physical objects) we see more as being affected by forces, and waves are the things that do the affecting.  Particles (matter) are tangible and waves (energy) are intangible.  We tend to think of things in the universe either being one or the other - either tangible or intangible - matter or energy. The funny thing about light is that it is a wave and a particle at the same time. Scientists have discovered that it acts like both a wave and a particle at the same time!  Weird!  How do you explain this?  It's seemingly impossible, or contradictory, but that's the conclusion that the scientific evidence points to. Likewise, the evidence of the Bible points us to the fact of the simultaneous humanity and deity of Christ. This same analogy can be used to help understand the Trinity as well. The bible tells us that the Three are One, however difficult that may be for us to understand.

Here is another illustration.  We normally think of light as one colour, what we call white light.  It is true that light is one colour, "white." It is true, light does look simply "white" until you shine it through a prism, and only then do you see that it is really a combination of colours - in fact, a combination of three basic "primary" colours, which blend to give us the rainbow.  Analogous to the prism, the Lord Jesus is the One through whom the light of God shone.  When He came, He revealed all the fullness, all the glory of God in His own person (Col. 1:15, 2:9 and Heb. 1:3).  The Trinity, although referred to in the Old Testament, was not fully revealed until Christ came. Christ was the prism for the revelation of the Trinity (the three primary colours) and the glory of God (the rainbow).

Finally, the sun, its light and its power may help to illustrate the Trinity. No one has actually seen the sun just as no one has seen the Father. Yet, we learn a great deal about the sun by studying the sunlight just as we learn about the Father through Jesus Christ the Son who is the radiance of His glory. (Heb.1:3) We see the power of the sun as it is involved in the growth of seeds, trees and plants, and when asked what makes things grow, we say the sun does. The Holy Spirit is like the power of the sun and He is God.