When Jesus said “you call me master and lord and that is what I am” He declared that master is not His role but His nature. In contrast Paul spoke of leaders of this world “who by nature are not gods”. If you become a leader you realise you are never really by nature a god but sometimes you are expected to behave like one. No matter how high we rise, lifted up by God to higher social status, we are aware we are by nature not noble, even though nobility gets thrust upon us. Yet Jesus could declare himself to be master and lord without even having risen to lofty social status. This means He must have had even early in life already a lofty status. It did not come during childhood or short three years of ministry. John the Baptist declared Jesus as greater than himself when Jesus was still obscure and just starting a public ministry so Jesus had status already even before many knew about Him.
