This verse is commonly used to prove the trinity, but is it as it seems?
Well, if you keep reading in that same book, you will come to verse 20, which reads, “At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” Now he is saying that we are in him, making it clear that the wording in John 14:11 cannot be a reference to Jesus being God, otherwise we would all be God due to the same wording in John 14:20, but in reference to us this time.
Later, in John 17:21, Jesus prays a similar statement, “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
In conclusion, it is clear by looking at other similar uses of the word “in” that occur in the Bible that Jesus is not claiming to be God. When “in” is used in the sense of “in God,” or “in Christ,” the word “in” refers to a close communion, a tight fellowship. It was part of the covenant language of the day, when people spoke of being either “in” or “cut off from” the covenant.
