to rule in God’s glorious kingdom, be a humble, submissive man, taunted and tortured and finally put to death by his enemies? It seemed impossible. But precisely here is our basic hermeneutic. Jesus, and the apostles after him, reinterpreted the Old Testament prophecies in light of Jesus’ person and mission. The Son of Man must appear on earth before he comes in glory, and his earthly mission was to fill the role of the Suffering Servant. This reinterpretation is not confined to Jesus’ teaching;