Son of Man

Question 1

What is the meaning of Mark 2:10? Human, servant, or God’s divine power?

Answer 1

• “”But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” - he said to the paralytic”
• divine power because he is spiritually higher than any other human; in order to possess healing powers

Question 2

What is the meaning of Mark 2:28? Human, servant, or God’s divine power?

Answer 2

• “…so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
• divine power: Jesus has enduring strength & possesses power & strength that the average civilian would be unable to attain (linked to the Sabbath day of rest)

Question 3

What is the meaning of Mark 8:31? Human, servant, or God’s divine power?

Answer 3

• titled “Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection” - “Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.”
• human - the extremities of Jesus’s suffering and eventual death highlights the ‘benchmark of acute suffering’ as an exemplar for the eternal forgiveness of our sins

Question 4

What is the meaning of Mark 8:38?