At the end of his life, when on trial for his radical claims, Jesus made an unmistakable claim to be God’s
before the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin (the Jewish religious leaders). The high priest asked him: “‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?’ ‘I am,’ said Jesus. ‘And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven’” (Mark 14:61–62).
Jesus' hearers knew the Old Testament (that is, the Hebrew scriptures). They understood exactly what Jesus was asserting. In saying he was “the Son of Man” who would come “on the clouds of heaven,” he was referring to the Messianic prophecy of the prophet Daniel (recorded in Daniel 7:13–14).