Revealed on the Cross
The Son of Man is revealed and comprehended in his sufferings and self-sacrificial death for others, including his enemies . This theme is found several times in the Gospel of Mark , namely, the inability of men to recognize Jesus as the Son of God until AFTER his crucifixion and resurrection, and most paradoxically, the first man to identify him as the “ Son of God ” was the Roman centurion on duty at his execution. His self-identification as the suffering “ Son of Man ” made him unrecognizable and distasteful to unregenerate men. He was the kind of Messiah no one expected or wanted.