because much of the Hebrew and Aramaic material from the days of Jesus no longer exists. We have noted that according to the Gospels, Jesus used the title “the son of man” with three meanings. The third type was used by Jesus, as it is in Hebrew discourse today, simply as a term for “man.” In the second type, he evidently referred to himself as the “son of man” as a euphemistic circumlocution. We have yet to consider the first meaning of the expression, in which he announced the coming of the Son