I think john lennon is halfway to Jesus. Both understood things that the masses didn't and knew how to express it in a way that they understood. Jesus lived in a time when it was probably harder to comprehend this, he also may have been beyond Lennon in his full embodiment of truth, and so, people turned him into a god, something that people like to do, find a leader, find a hero, find a god. Over thousands of years you get all kinds of crazy ideas.

Jesus WAS God. The thing people don't understand though is that they are too.