The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever: and how say you,
The Son of man must be lifted up?
who is this Son of man?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
How sayest thou the Son of man must be lifted up? By these words of the people, Christ, in this discourse must have called himself the Son of man, though it is not here mentioned by the evangelist. The people also tell him, they had heard that their Messias was to abide for ever: which was true as to his spiritual kingdom of grace, not as to such a glorious temporal kingdom, as they imagined. (Witham)
