Dictionary entry

Son Of Man

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

a title of Christ, assumed by himself in his humiliation, Joh 1:51.

It was understood as a designation of the Messiah, according to Old Testament predictions, Ps 80:17Da 7:13,14; but appears to indicate especially his true humanity or oneness with the human race. It is applies to him more than eighty times in the New Testament.