Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making, vol. 1

§16.4 How Did Jesus See His Own Role ?
Matt. 11.18-19
18 For John came neither eating
nor drinking, and thev sav. 'He has a
demon'; 19 the Son of Man came eating and
drinking, and thev sav. 'Look, a man, a glutton
and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and
sinners!'
Luke 7.33-34
33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread
and drinking no wine, and vou sav, 'He has a
demon'; 34 the Son of Man has come eating and
drinking, and vou sav. 'Look, a man, a glutton
and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and
sinners!'
The presence of 'the son of man' does not constitute an argument against the
origin of the saying in Jesus' teaching. 162 On the contrary it strengthens the
likelihood that Jesus was remembered as referring to himself in this allusive
fashion. 163
(6) The Son of Man' = T. Finally we should note a number of cases
where one side of a Synoptic parallel reads 'the son of man', while the other
reads T. The most striking examples are Matt. 5.11/Luke 6.22; 164 Matt. 10.32-
33/Luke 12.8-9; Mark 8.27/Matt. 16.13; and Mark 10.45/Luke 22.27.
Matt. 5.11
Blessed are vou when people revile vou and
persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against
you falsely on account of me.
Matt. 10.32-33
32 Everyone therefore who
acknowledges me before men,
I also will acknowledge
before mv Father in heaven; 33
but whoever denies me before
men, I also will deny before my
Father in heaven.
Matt. 16.13
Now when Jesus came into the district
of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saving. 'Who do men sav that the Son
of Man is?'
Luke 12.8-9
8 And I tell you, everyone who
acknowledges me before men,
the Son of Man also will
acknowledge before the angels
of God; 9 but he who denies
me before men will be denied
before the angels of God.
Luke 6.22
Blessed are vou when people hate vou, and when
thev exclude vou, revile vou, and defame vou
on account of the Son of Man.
Rev. 3.5
And
I will acknowledge
his name before my Father and
before his angels.
Mark 8.27
Jesus came out with his disciples into the villages
of Caesarea Philippi; and on the wav he asked his
disciples, saying to them, 'Who do men say that I
am?'
162. See above, §§12.5c and 13.5 and chapter 15 n. 224.
163. Note the play again on 'son of man', 'man'; Black observes that anthröpos followed
by a substantive ('a man, a glutton') is a Semitic idiom (Aramaic Approach 106-107).
See further Colpe, TDNT 8.431-32; Lindars, Jesus Son of Man 31-34; Casey, 'General, Generic
and Indefinite' 39-40; Hare, Son of Man 259-64. Matt. 12.40/Luke 11.30 could serve as another
example (Lindars 38-44), but it is not so clear that 'the son of man' was part of the saying as
originally recalled (see above, §15.6b[5]).
164. Fuller citation above, §12.4c.
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