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Even though Jesus was and is a man, He walked the earth as a man.
- Jesus referred to Himself as a man – Jn 8:40
- Others refer to Jesus as a man –
- John the Baptist referred to Jesus as a man – Jn 1:30
- A Roman centurion referred to Jesus as a man – Mt 8:9; Lk 7:8
- Officers refer to Jesus as a man – Jn 7:46
- The man healed of congenital blindness referred to Jesus as a man – Jn 9:11
- The Pharisees referred to Jesus as a man – Jn 9:16
- Pontius Pilate called Jesus a man – Jn 19:5
- A centurion who witnessed Jesus dying on the cross referred to Him as a man – Mk 15:39; Lk 23:47
- Peter referred to Jesus as a man – Acts 2:22
- Paul referred to Jesus as a man – Phil 2:8
- Others referred to Jesus as a man – Jn 4:29; 10:33, 41
- Synonymous expressions:
- “flesh and bones” – Lk 24:39
- “from the descendants of David” – Jn 7:42
- “a descendant of David according to the flesh” – Rom 1:3
- “according to the flesh” – 2 Cor 5:16
- “descendant of David” – 2 Tim 2:8
- “flesh and blood” – Heb 2:14
- “made like His brethren in all things” – Heb 2:17
- “In the days of His flesh” – Heb 5:7
- “our Lord was descended from Judah” – Heb 7:14
- Other notable references to Jesus as a man
- Lk 19:14 – “We do not want this man to reign over us”
- 1 Cor 15:21-22 – “For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.
- 1 Tim 2:5 – “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”
- Deut 17:14-20 – “you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman”
- Eccl 9:13-18 – – “a poor wise man”
- Isaiah 53:3 – “A man of sorrows”
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