And Jesus said. I am Thus adjured, the Lord broke the silence He had hitherto maintained. His answer to such a question must be liable to no misinterpretation. Peter in an ecstatic moment had declared He was the King Messiah, "the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16), and He had not refused the awful Name. Thousands also of Galilean pilgrims had saluted Him with Hosannas in this character through the streets of Jerusalem. But as yet He had not openly declared Himself. The supreme moment, however, had at length arrived, and He now replied, "I am the Messiah, the Son of God, the Son of Man and hereafter ye shall see Me sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." Comp. Daniel 7:13; Psalms 8:4; Psalms 110:1.

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