And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
And said. Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
This (to use the words of Alford) is the only time that our Lord is by human lips called THE SON OF MAN after his ascension. (Revelation 1:13; Revelation 14:14, are not instances.) And why here? Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, speaking now not of himself at all (Acts 7:55), but entirely by the Spirit, is led to repeat the very words in which Jesus Himself, before this same council, had foretold His glorification (Matthew 26:64), assuring them that that exaltation of THE SON OF MAN, which they should hereafter witness, to their dismay, was already begun and actual.