Of course it did. That’s not the subject of debate.
***That’s precisely the subject of the debate.
The issue here is only your personal religious belief that Jesus’ words were somehow tantamount to claiming “equality” with God.
***That is not a religious belief. It is a historical observation. Historians don’t have a problem with it, but apparently you do. And to think, you were the one who went out of his way to point out the differences between religious faith and history. You can’t even tell the difference yourself.
But some historians certainly do dispute that Jesus claimed to be God Himself, or part of a triune God-head.
They say you are mis-translating and mis-interpreting what the New Testament writers intended.
Of course, you are free to dispute those historians.
I am only here to plead that you do it reasonably, without threatening to burn anybody at the stake as "damnable heretics".