Son of Man

Jesus uses this self-referential title in his promise that some standing with him would see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom — a promise fulfilled in the Transfiguration days later.

Son of Man is the title Jesus uses for himself at the climax of the discourse — arriving on the clouds with power and glory in direct fulfillment of Daniel 7, the ultimate vindication of everything he has claimed.

Son of Man is clarified here not as a modest self-reference but as a direct citation of this vision — a figure receiving cosmic, permanent, universal authority from the Ancient of Days himself.

The Son of Man is the figure at the center of the chapter's eschatological climax — the one who will appear in the clouds with power and glory when the old order collapses.

Son of Man is the title Jesus uses when connecting himself to the bronze serpent — invoking the Danielic figure who must be 'lifted up' just as Moses lifted the serpent, linking the two acts of deliverance.

Son of Man appears here in its Old Testament form as a plea for a royal figure at God's right hand — the text notes that later readers would recognize this phrase as pointing beyond Israel's crisis toward a future person who would be God's ultimate answer.