The hardest passage to decipher is Matthew 10:23. Matthew 10:23: Interrupting the Apostles’ Brief Missions Trip? “These things” in verses 29–30 must therefore refer to the events described in verses 5–23, all of which can be understood to have been at least provisionally fulfilled in the years between Jesus’s death (most likely AD 30) and the destruction of the temple in AD 70-a 40-year period, or a generation. Still, he has also spoken of “these things happening” in verse 29 as the clue to recognizing that his return is near, and it would make no sense for him to say, in essence, “Once you see I’ve returned, know that I’m near.” In Mark 13:30, Jesus declares that “this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” “These things” presumably refers to what he has just been describing, and in verses 24–27 he has described his return. Mark 13:30: Predicting Jerusalem’s Destruction The fact that the transfiguration is dated as “six days after” this promise seems to confirm this interpretation, as does Peter’s description of the transfiguration in 2 Peter 1:16–18. Yet the very next event in Mark is the transfiguration, which Jesus’s three closest disciples witness, so he may well have that in mind. 16:28 Luke 9:27), Jesus promises that “there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
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