Matthew 26:64

64. Thou hast said The same in sense is given by Mark: “I am.” This was a solemn moment. The titular high priest of the Jews, and their eternal High Priest, are now face to face. the substance is arraigned before the judgment bar of the shadow. One is the representative of the Jewish nation; the other is its Messiah and its true king. The representative, in whom for the time being the nation is embodied, puts the great question, “Are you the Messiah?” The Messiah “witnesses a good confession.” He pronounces the solemn affirmative, “I AM.” And he is REJECTED. The great act is consummated. Well might the high priest rend his clothes. Not because his prisoner had spoken blasphemy, but because himself had denied the Lord that bought him.

Nevertheless Should rather be moreover. Hereafter Through all the circumstances of his humiliation, Jesus foresaw with unwavering faith the day of his own exaltation. Shall ye see Ye who now see me your prisoner will then see me your Judge. The Son of man He does not say me, but speaks of himself by that title which the Old Testament ascribes to the Messiah.

Sitting on the right hand of power That is, of Omnipotence. Coming in the clouds of heaven The words are taken from Daniel 7:13. The prophet is describing Christ’s coming into the presence of his Father to be invested with all power. Its true fulfilment took place at the resurrection. (See on Matthew 28:18.) But as the same Lord will come at the judgment day in that same glory, so the words that describe that same glory are well used, although in a different transaction. The glory wherewith Christ was invested at his resurrection, though mostly unseen by mortal eye, was the same glory as that with which he will be visibly invested at his second coming.