Son of God. Son of man. Two phrases that describe the divinity and the humanity of Jesus. Around 2,000 years ago, God sent his son to this earth as a baby, to become Mary’s son. This is the Christmas story. It’s the season for manger displays and anger displays. A time for some to celebrate the birth of Jesus and a time for some to try their hardest to take Jesus out of the season.
Our word for this week is huios, which is Greek for son. This word is used in the New Testament 382 times , according to Strong’s. Significantly more than half of these are found in the four Gospels.
Jesus called himself the Son of Man. In Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, it is explained that this could be to “designate himself as the head of the human race” , Jesus, who was a “perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind.” (http://biblehub.com/greek/5207.htm)
Verses:
Matthew 1:1 NASB The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Matthew 5:9 ESV Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (The NIV and KJV use children for sons.)
Matthew 20:18 NASB Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.
Matthew 21:9 NIV The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
Matthew 24:36 ESV But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Mark 2:28 KJV Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
Mark 8:38 NIV He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.
Mark 15:39 NASB When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
Luke 1:31-32 ESV And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
Luke 2:7 KJV And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke18:8 NIV I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?
Luke 22:69-70 ESV But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God. So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” and he said to them, “You say that I am.”
John 3:16-17 NIV For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 17:1 NASB Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
Hebrews 5:5 KJV So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
2 Peter 1:17 NASB For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”.
1 John 1:7 NIV But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 3:23 ESV And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 John 4:14-15 KJV And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1 John 5:20 NASB And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
2 John 1:9 NIV Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Revelation 21:12 ESV It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed.
The G/K number for huios is 5626.
The Strong’s number for huios is 5207.
