Here is my attempt to help clarify the nature of Jesus as revealed in the Bible.  I will fore go any references that Jesus was a man because nobody has a problem believing that he was a man.  What is overwhelmingly clear is that the Bible also presents Jesus as God.  It's important to note that we do not believe that Jesus is equal to the Father, this is a common misconception that is then easily refuted.  Jesus is distinct from the Father but they are of the same essence.

1. The Jewish scriptures have several prophecies about Yahweh, that are fulfilled in Jesus.  The Hebrew word YHWH in the Old Testament is translated to kurios (Lord) in the Greek New Testament.  This connects Jesus with the Old Testament Yahweh/God.

Isaiah 40:3 -> Matthew 3:3

Malachi 3:1 -> Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27

Psalms 110:1 -> Matthew 22:44; Acts 2:34,35; Hebrews 1:13

2. Jesus is eternal (only God is eternal).

John 1:1-3; 8:58-59; 17:5,24; Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 7:24; Revelation 1:8; 21:6; 22:13

3. Jesus accepted and wanted worship.  Only God deserves worship.  We are commanded to not worship anything that God has created, to do this would be idolatry.

Matthew 2:11; 14:23; 28:9,17; John 9:38; 17:5; Luke 24:52; Hebrews 1:6; Revelation 4:10,11; 5:13; Luke 4:8 (Deut 6:13; 10:20)

4. Jesus referred to God as 'My Father' which is significantly different from 'Our Father'.  Jesus claimed to have intimate knowledge of the Father that no one else had, and only the Father knew Jesus intimately. (Matt 11:27; John 14:7)  The Jews took offense when Jesus used the term 'my father' rather than 'our father'.

Matthew 7:21; 10:32,33; 11:27; 12:50; 16:17; 18:10,19; 20:23; 26:39,42,53

Luke 10:22; 22:29; 24:49

John 5:17; 6:32,40; 8:19,38,49,54; 10:18,29,37; 14:7,20,21,23; 15:1,8,15,23,24; 20:17

Revelation 2:27; 3:5,21

5. Jesus' most common name for himself was 'son of man', which is not talking of his humanity but is taken directly from Daniel 7 where God the Father (Ancient of Days) gives authority to the son of man (see point 10 and 11.)  The son of man is given an everlasting kingdom and rules over it for eternity.

Daniel 7:13,14; Acts 7:55; Mark 8:38; 13:26

6. Jesus was called God directly.

John 1:1,18; 20:28; Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 2:9

7. Jesus was involved in creation, again only something that can be done by God.

Colossians 1:16; Ephesians 3:9; John 1:3

8. On many occasions the Jewish religious leaders tried to stone Jesus because he 'being a man, claimed to be God.'  They eventually crucified him for this very reason.

John 8:58-59; 10:30-33; 11:8

9. He was not an example of faith, but the object of faith. (see point 3)

Not saying "Have faith in God like the faith which I have in God," but as saying, "Have faith in me."

John 14:1; Acts 26:18; Galatians 2:20; 2 Timothy 1:13

10. He was more than a prophet, he spoke with his own authority.  He does not say, "Thus says the Lord."  No, he says, "I say."  He comes forward with His own authority, and that authority is on the same level with the authority of God as it was found expressed in the Old Testament.

Mark 1:27; Matthew 5:18,20,22,26,28,32,34...

11. Jesus is the judge, determining whether people enter heaven.  We know that God is the final judge.

Matthew 7:23; John 14:6; Romans 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:10

12. He forgave sins; something only God can do.

Mark 2:5-10; Hebrews 7:24-26

13. Jesus was without sin.  No one is without sin except God.

Hebrews 4:15; 7:26; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5; Romans 3:23

14. Jesus was called the Son of God.  A claim of being of equal status with God (which the Jews recognized and sought to kill him because of this title.)

John 10:36-38

15. Jesus performed many miracles and signs to back up his message that he was the savior of his people.  Not a mere prophet or teacher.

But, you may say, 3 persons in 1 being just doesn't make sense!  I agree that there is a great mystery as to the nature of God, and I do not fully understand it.

In Matthew 11:27 Jesus said "and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him."

Gresham Machen says on this verse "there are mysteries in the person, Jesus, which none but the infinite and eternal God can know. The two persons, the Father and the Son, are here put in a strange reciprocal relationship. They are both mysterious to all others, but they are known, and fully known, to each other. The Son knows the depths of the Father’s being, and the Father knows the depths of the being of the Son. An ineffable mutual knowledge prevails between these two."