(John 8:58) Again: "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father".

(John 16:28) "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (John 17:5) Again Jesus said: "I am the beginning of the creation of God".
(Revelation 3:14) Furthermore, the apostle Paul under inspiration states: "God ...

hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds".
(Hebrews 1:1,2) And again he states: "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich".

(2 Corinthians 8:9) He was in the form of God before he became a man.

"Who, though being in God's form, yet did not meditate a usurpation to be like God, but divested himself, taking a bondman's form, having been made in the likeness of men."-- Philippians 2:6,7, _Diaglott_.
[166]Some have earnestly believed that Jesus was God himself.