Acts 7:56

56. Son of man Beside the luminous presence of God, Stephen sees one who from recollection, or from divinely inspired intuition, he recognises as Jesus, and identifies by the term used by Daniel as “the Son of man.” The glory of God here, parallel to that of Daniel, must have identified itself with God, “the Ancient of Days,” from which the Son of man is distinguished.

Standing Not, as usually described, sitting. He will not reposingly sit while men are thus rough-dealing with his faithful confessor. He stands up to watch the bloody scene, and terribly will he require it at their hands in the day of vengeance. So (Daniel 12:1) “Michael shall stand up for the children of thy people.”