Filho do homem
Filho do Homem é o título que Jesus mais usou para si mesmo. Ele conecta sua humanidade plena com a visão profética de Daniel sobre o Messias glorioso que receberá domínio eterno.
A profecia de Daniel
Daniel viu alguém como o Filho do Homem vindo com as nuvens do céu. Foi-lhe dado domínio, glória e reino eterno.
13 like a son of man, cloathed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breast with a golden girdle.
14 And I saw and behold a white cloud, and on the cloud sat one like a son of man, having a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right-hand of God.
Jesus, o Filho do Homem
O Filho do Homem veio buscar e salvar o que se havia perdido. Ele tem autoridade para perdoar pecados e julgar.
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
37 He answering said to them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men;
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for at an hour ye think not, the Son of man cometh.
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory.
31 For he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men; and they will kill him, and after he hath been killed, he shall rise the third day.
45 For the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
24 But that ye may know, that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (he said to the paralytic) I say to thee, Arise, take up thy couch, and go to thine house.
58 But Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
24 Ior as the lightning that lightneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth to the other part under heaven, so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Glória e autoridade
Quando o Filho do Homem for levantado, atrairá todos a si. Ele é plenamente humano e plenamente divino.
28 Jesus therefore saith to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
51 Verily, verily I say to you, Hereafter ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him?