Isaiah 6:1
Isaiah 6:11In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Jehovah's Witnesses accept that describes a vision of Jehovah seated on his throne in heavenly glory. The Watchtower treats this as a vision of the Father alone, reinforcing the view that Jehovah is a single divine person distinct from Jesus. When confronted with — where the apostle John says Isaiah "saw his glory and spoke about him" and the "him" is Jesus — JWs typically argue that Isaiah glimpsed Jesus' future glory or that Jesus was present as Jehovah's chief representative. These explanations introduce a secondary figure the text does not mention.
The decisive cross-reference is . After quoting , John writes that Isaiah "said these things because he saw his glory and spoke about him" — and the "him" in context is unmistakably Jesus (). Isaiah saw Jehovah on his throne; John says Isaiah was looking at Jesus' glory. The identification is straightforward: the Jehovah of Isaiah 6 is identified by the inspired apostle as Jesus. This is confirmed by jw.org's own cross-reference footnote on , which links directly to , placing both passages in the same context. The conclusion is unavoidable without inserting a voice change or secondary figure that neither text mentions. Combined with (the Messiah called "Jehovah Is Our Righteousness") and the principle of shared name indicating shared nature, this passage forms part of the Old Testament evidence for plurality within the one God.