Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 24:34
Till all these things shall be fulfilled. Some hold that "all
these things", in Matthew 24:32, refer only to what was said of the
fall of Jerusalem, ending with Matthew 24:28. Others have contended
that the phrase includes the second coming, but refers directly to the
end of Jerusalem, which was a type of the end of the world. I believe,
rather, that "all these things" embraces all thus far predicted, and
that "this generation" means the Jewish race, instead of only those
then living. The Greek word, "genea", so rendered is used in the sense
of "race" in the Greek classics, and as examples of such use in the New
Testament, Alford points to Matthew 12:45 Lu 16:8. Christ has described
the awful end of the Jewish state; after such a destruction and
scattering of the remnant to the ends of the earth, all the examples of
history would declare that the Jewish race would become extinct.
Christ, however, declares that, contrary to all probability, it shall
not pass away until he comes. They still exist, 1850 years after the
prediction, distinct, but without a country.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Mark 13:1
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