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Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
The Son of man with a sword among the seven lampstands, in John's vision.From the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th century.. Son of man is an expression in the sayings of Jesus in Christian writings, including the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation.
John the Evangelist and Peter by Albrecht Dürer (1526) John is always mentioned in the group of the first four apostles in the Gospels and in the Book of Acts, listed either second, [30] third [31] or fourth. [32] [33] John, along with his brother James and Peter, formed an informal triumvirate among the Twelve Apostles in the Gospels.
Son of man", "son of Adam", ... "One like a son of man" with a sword among the seven lampstands, in John's vision. From the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th century.
John is instructed by the "one like a son of man" to write all that he hears and sees, from the prophetic visions, to Seven Churches of Asia. (1:10–13) The appearance of the "one like a son of man" is given, and he reveals what the seven stars and seven lampstands represent. (1:14–20) Messages for seven churches of Asia
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640) Christian tradition has considered the Book of Revelation's writer to be the same person as John the Apostle. A minority of ancient clerics and scholars, such as Eusebius (d. 339/340), recognize at least one further John as a companion of Jesus, John the Presbyter. Some Christian ...
Augustine: "Good preachers, however, who preach Christ, are as angels of God; i. e. they ascend and descend upon the Son of man; as Paul, who ascended to the third heaven, and descended so far even as to give milk to babes. He saith, We shall see greater things than these: (2 Cor. 12:2. 1 Cor. 3:2) because it is a greater thing that our Lord ...
Healing the man blind from birth in John 9:1–7; The raising of Lazarus in John 11:1–45; The seven signs are seen by some scholars and theologians as evidence of new creation theology in the Gospel of John, the resurrection of Jesus being the implied eighth sign, indicating a week of creation and then a new creation beginning with the ...