Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. The difficult closing verse — some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom — is best understood as a reference to the transfiguration (the immediate following narrative) as a proleptic vision of the kingdom's glory, or possibly to the resurrection and Pentecost as the beginning of the kingdom's advance. The verse links the passion prediction and the discipleship teaching to the approaching glimpse of the kingdom's glory.

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