When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Ver. 13. Whom do men say that I, &c.] This question Christ asked, not as tickled with ambition to hear his own commendation (which yet is held and said to be the only sweet hearing), a but as taking occasion to make way for their Christian confession, and likewise for their further information.
The Son of man am] So he was called: 1. Because a true Man 1:2. Because he passed for no more than an ordinary man. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" John 6:52; John 3:1,36. Because as man born of a woman, he was of few days and full of trouble: yea, he was the man that had seen affliction by the rod of God's wrath.
a ηδιστον ακουσμα επαινος. Xenophon.