Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. The most debated verse in the Olivet Discourse: this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. The this generation is most naturally read as the generation contemporary with Jesus, and the all these things includes the tribulation, the false messiahs, and some form of the Son of Man's coming — with 70 AD as the historical fulfillment of at least the temple's destruction and the community's tribulation.

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