“Truly I say to you, This generation will not pass away, until all these things be accomplished.”

But so that they will not begin to think that this means that they do not need to consider what He has been talking about because it is likely to be delayed, He assures them that ‘all these things', all the things that must happen prior to His return as outlined, will happen within that generation. But He immediately points out that as He does not know when the time of His coming will be, He cannot give them any assurances about that, only that from that time on they can recognise that He is ‘near' and ‘at the doors' so that it can happen at any time within the will and purpose of God.

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