We often forget that Christ’s title as King—the title which He affirms when He makes His triumphant entrance into Jerusalem and is greeted as “the King that comes in the name of the Lord,” the title which He accepts when He stands before Pilate: “thou sayest that I am a king” (John 18:37)—is His human, and not only divine title. He is the King, and He manifests Himself as King because He is the New Adam, the Perfect Man—because He restores in Himself human nature in its ineffable glory and power.
Alexander Schmemann
Of Water and Spirit
pg. 83