Matthew 16:28

The most probable interpretation of this v. refers it to Christ's coming to overthrow the old dispensation by the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 a.d. The decisive phrase is, 'There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death.' This obviously excludes the Last Judgment, and, hardly less obviously, Christs Resurrection, for it would be a truism to say that some of the disciples present would live to see an event which happened only a few months later. Whether the Transfiguration is referred to is not so clear. It was witnessed by only some of those present, but, on the other hand, it can hardly be described as the kingdom of God coming 'with power' (Mk). Nevertheless it is not by an accident that the Transfiguration immediately followed the saying. The Transfiguration was an earnest of the greater manifestation of power shown at the destruction of Jerusalem, just as that event itself was an earnest and, as it were, a rehearsal of the final act of judgment: see farther on Matthew 24.

Taste of death] a common rabbinical expression for 'to die.' Not in OT. The Son of man, etc.] St. Mark 'the kingdom of God come in power'; St. Luke 'the kingdom of God.'