Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
This verse belongs to a prophecy that embraces both the destruction of Jerusalem and the coming of Christ and the end of the world. In that discourse the two events are blended together, so that what is spoken concerning Jerusalem reaches beyond its immediate overthrow to the final judgment. The discourse is spoken both to the first disciples and to those who shall be living in earth's last days. The chapter in which the verse stands lays out what people may expect, in signs of coming trouble and in the nearness of the day of the Lord. The signs of the times testify that the end is at hand.
This verse belongs to a prophecy that embraces both the destruction of Jerusalem and the coming of Christ and the end of the world. In that discourse the two events are blended together, so that what is spoken concerning Jerusalem reaches beyond its immediate overthrow to the final judgment. The discourse is spoken both to the first disciples and to those who shall be living in earth's last days. The chapter in which the verse stands lays out what people may expect, in signs of coming trouble and in the nearness of the day of the Lord. The signs of the times testify that the end is at hand.