Luke 24:6-8 ‘Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’’ Then they remembered his words.

Jesus called Himself the Son of man over seventy times in the New Testament. Have you ever had a friend who said to you: I am a son of man. Or, I am a daughter of man. That is stating the obvious, isn’t it?

However, for Jesus it was not stating the obvious. He was the Son of God. He had created the world. He had never lived on earth and it was amazing to him that he now walked the earth, in a human body, as a man. That is why he called himself the Son of man. But there was another reason. This title also referred to a passage in Daniel 7, where Daniel has a vision and writes ‘I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days’.

Those hearing Jesus knew he was referring to Daniel when he called himself the son of Man. In other words, in saying ‘son of Man’, Jesus immediately also made clear: I am the son of God, the son of the Ancient of Days.

Jesus is both God and man. He is the God-man. The son of God. The Messiah. He is the only one that can save you and I. Thank you God for thinking of us and not leaving us alone! You are Immanuel. God with us!