NT Text: Matthew 26:64
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: Dan 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion
Significance: At his trial, under the high priest's oath, Jesus identifies himself as the fulfillment of Daniel's vision: "from now on you will see the Son of Man... coming on the clouds of heaven" (26:64), conflating Daniel 7:13 with Psalm 110:1 ("sitting at the right hand of Power"). The shared vocabulary — "the Son of Man" "coming on/with the clouds of heaven" — is verbatim from Daniel 7:13. In Daniel's night vision "One like the Son of Man" approaches the Ancient of Days and is given "dominion, glory, and kingship... an everlasting dominion that will not pass away" (7:14). By claiming this title before the Sanhedrin, Jesus is not merely predicting a future return but announcing that the enthronement Daniel saw is being inaugurated through his own vindication — the cloud-coming is movement toward the throne, not away from it. The Connection Method is Promise-Fulfillment: the figure Daniel beheld receiving the eternal kingdom is the man standing accused before them. The irony and the glory converge — the judges think they are condemning a blasphemer, while he announces that the everlasting dominion of the Son of Man is now his, the One worthy of the worship of "every nation and language." Here is Christ seen as desirable: the rejected prisoner is the King whose kingdom will never be destroyed.