KJV ORIGINAL
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
I'm telling you the truth, all of this is going to happen to the people alive right now.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Jesus wasn't talking about some distant future, he meant their lifetime.
📚 Historical Context
In the context of Matthew 23, Jesus is delivering a strong rebuke to the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy and for rejecting God's prophets throughout history. He warns that the judgment for all the bloodshed of the righteous, including His own coming death, will fall on the people of that generation in Jerusalem. This prophecy was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70, marking God's justice on a nation that continually turned away from Him.
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