Jesus answered: “I am . . . And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:61–62). A biblically illiterate person might have missed the import of Jesus’ words. Caiaphas and the council did not. They knew that in saying He was the Son of Man who would come on the clouds of heaven, He was making an overt reference to the Son of Man in Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 7:13–14). And in doing so, He was not only claiming to be the preexistent