I do not wish to detract in any way from readers’ digesting for themselves Bird’s arguments or savoring his conclusions, but I do wish to note some of his wording along the way as he expounds the various parts of his positive argument in chapter 4. Regarding the use of the term “Son of man,” Bird says that Jesus “can even use it to make tacit references to his divinely given regal-like authority,” and as this “Son of man” Jesus “is already exercising the dominion of the Messiah.” With regard to Jesus’s