<p>26:64&nbsp;<i>Jesus said to him: You have said it; nevertheless I say to you, from this time forward- &quot;</i>You have said&quot; shows how again, the Lord sought to elicit confessions from men in their own words.&nbsp;<br /><i><br />You shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven</i>- The allusion is clearly to Daniel's vision of the Son of Man coming in glory to judge the Gentile world. And the Lord is saying that those hyper religious Jews were effectively condemned Gentiles before God. But those men to whom He spoke died in their beds. Lifespans were short in first century Palestine, most males were dead by 40. Most of them wouldn't even have lived to experience the calamity of AD67-70. They will only therefore &quot;see the Son of Man sitting...&quot; at His return, when they are resurrected and see Him in His glory. And this will be of itself their condemnation- to see Him there enthroned in glory, and themselves not in His Kingdom. This was exactly His teaching to them in 23:39: &quot;You shall not see Me from this time forward, until you shall say: Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord&quot;. They will then bless Him- but all too tragically late.</p><p>At His trial, the Lord warned them that He would come again as judge (Mt. 26:64,65), as if He realized that they were living out a foretaste of the final judgment. The thief likewise understood the Lord's presence as being the presence of the judge who would finally judge him (Lk. 23:44). Harry Whittaker points out that the cross divided men: there were women who followed and mourned insincerely, and the women who really followed. There were soldiers who gambled over the Lord's clothes, and one who really repented. There was a thief who repented and one who wouldn't. There were those who mocked and others who watched and believed.</p>