“Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels — the shame saying is the inverse of the cross-bearing call: ashamed of Jesus now produces the Son of Man's shame then. The adulterous and sinful generation is the community that has seen the miracles and demands signs, that rejects the prophet and plots with the Herodians. The coming of the Son of Man in his Father's glory with the holy angels is the Daniel 7:13–14 vision applied to the future consummation — the same title used in Mark 2:10 and 2:28 now given its full eschatological weight.
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