Jesus said unto the disciples, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles:

And they . . . shall scourge Him, and shall spit upon Him, and shall kill Him: yet the third day He shall rise again. Mark x 33, 34.

So likewise in other places, where He foretells His passion, as

Matt. xx 18, 19; Mark viii 31; Luke ix 22;

Jesus said to the disciples ... Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Matt. xxvi 45.

The angel said to the women that came unto the sepulchre, Remember how He spake unto you ... that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again. Luke xxiv 6, 7.

The Lord then called Himself the Son of Man because He suffered Himself to be treated in the same manner as they had treated the Word, as has been shown above in many passages.