And yet He did.
"Before Abraham was, I Am."
but Jesus said to them, 'I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?' 'We are not stoning you for any of these,' replied the Jews, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God
How did Jesus answer that?
By showing that the hebrew word Elohim also means judges. a legal argument against a criminal charge.
Is it not written in your law, " I said ye are gods," to whom the word of God was delivered?
His reasoning was that the act of God in giving the law made judges, elohim, out of those who received it.
In the same way the act of God giving Jesus secret teaching about the law, hidden by God, made him Gods son..
It was not a claim that Jesus was making it was a choice that God already made.