Mark 13:30

this generation shall not pass The word thus rendered denotes (1) birth, age, as in the phrases "younger," "older in age;" (2) descent;(3) a generationof men living at the same time; (4) in a wider sense, a race. He, Who surveys all things as an Eternal Present, "turns the thoughts of His disciples to two horizons, one near and one far off:"

(i) In reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, He declares that the generation of the literal Israel then living would not pass away before the judgments here predicted would fall upon Jerusalem, just as God had made their forefathers wander in the wilderness "until all the generationwas consumed" that had come out of Egypt "and done evil in the sight of the Lord" (Numbers 32:13);

(ii) In reference to His own Second Coming, and the world at large, He affirms that the race of men, and especially the generationof them that sought the Lord(Psalms 24:6), the faithful seed of Abraham, should not pass away until all these things should be fulfilled.