Matthew 26:63 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Yesterday we saw Jesus referred to as the Son of God; here we find one of His favorite names for Himself: Son of Man. Jesus wanted to make it clear that not only was He the Son of God, but that He truly was in every way human - except that He was without sin. He wanted it to be clear that he was "the second person of the Trinity;" yet at the same time "humankind."* This was not the first time He had used the title for Himself; He had been using it since He began His public ministry. In fact, John the Baptist used it of Him even before He introduced Jesus as the Lamb of God.(John 1) Jesus used it often when He wanted to give the big picture that He was sent from the Father to live sinlessly, die sacrificially for our sin, be buried, rise again, then ascend back to the Father to intercede for us and prepare a place for us: the fullness of His mission to earth. These two names: Son of Man and Son of God, go together in the same sentence, just like Jesus used them here.
*(Diann Cotton: 100 Days with Jesus)
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