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Jesus the Man Day 15
In the Gospels, Jesus calls himself a human being, a man. He says, "But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God"1 Lidden writes "The Son of Man, as applied to himself by Jesus, doubtless expresses a real humanity, a perfect and penetrating community of nature and feeling with the lot of human kind." Jesus said, "the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."2
Jesus also said that he was God as well as a man. The High Priest at his trial asked Jesus, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One (being the phrase used by Jews to mean God without speaking his name)?" Jesus in reply used the "God name" which had a profound effect on his hearers. "I am," said Jesus. "And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven." At this the High Priest tore his clothes and said "you have heard this blasphemy."3The High Priest no doubt would have been reminded of Moses' meeting with God in which Moses asked God what his name was. We read "God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"4 Jesus angered the crowd with this claim of deity so that they picked up stones to throw at him. In yet another claim to deity he said, "I and the Father are one."5
1John 8.40 2Matthew 8.20 3Mark 14.61-64 4Exodus 3.14 5John 10.31
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