Matthew 24:34

Revised Standard Version

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.

King James Version (1611)
Uerely I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe, till all these things be fulfilled.

King James Version
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

English Standard Version
Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

New American Standard Bible
"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

New Century Version
I tell you the truth, all these things will happen while the people of this time are still living.

Amplified Bible
"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, this generation [the people living when these signs and events begin] will not pass away until all these things take place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Berean Standard Bible
Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.

Contemporary English Version
I can promise you that some of the people of this generation will still be alive when all this happens.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yes! I tell you that this people will certainly not pass away before all these things happen.

Darby Translation
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.

Easy-to-Read Version
I assure you that all these things will happen while some of the people of this time are still living.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Verely I say vnto you, this generation shal not passe, till all these things be done.

George Lamsa Translation
Truly I say to you, that this generation will not pass away, until all these things happen.

Good News Translation
Remember that all these things will happen before the people now living have all died.

Lexham English Bible
Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place!

Literal Translation
Truly I say to you, In no way will this generation pass away until all these things have occurred.

American Standard Version
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

Bible in Basic English
Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.

Hebrew Names Version
Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

International Standard Version
"Truly I tell you, this generation will not disappear until these things happen.Matthew 16:28; 23:36; Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Amen I say to you, that this race [fn] shall not have passed away until all these shall take place.

Murdock Translation
Verily I say to you, That this generation shall not pass away, till all these things shall be.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ueryly I say vnto you: this generation shall not passe, tyll all these thynges be fulfylled.

English Revised Version
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

World English Bible
Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Weymouth's New Testament
I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Treuli Y seie to you, for this generacioun schal not passe, til alle thingis be don;

Update Bible Version
Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

Webster's Bible Translation
Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things shall be fulfilled.

New English Translation
I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

New King James Version
Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

New Living Translation
I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.

New Life Bible
For sure, I tell you, the people of this day will not pass away before all these things have happened.

New Revised Standard
Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Verely I saye vnto you that this generacion shall not passe tyll all these be fulfilled.

Young's Literal Translation
Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Verely I saye vnto you: This generacion shal not passe, tyll all these be fulfylled.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I declare unto you, the present generation shall not cease, till all these things are pass'd.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I ain't just talkin' to people hundreds of years from now, I'm talkin' right at y'all sitting here too.

Contextual Overview

³² "From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. ³³ So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. ³⁴ Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. ³⁶ "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. ³⁷ As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. ³⁸ For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. ⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left.

Bible Verse Review
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This: Matthew 12:45, Matthew 16:28, Matthew 23:36, Mark 13:30, Mark 13:31, Luke 11:50, Luke 21:32, Luke 21:33

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:89 - For ever Ezekiel 10:7 - and went Ezekiel 12:23 - The days Matthew 5:18 - verily Matthew 10:15 - verily Matthew 11:16 - this Ephesians 4:10 - fill Hebrews 10:25 - as ye

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass,.... Not the generation of men in general; as if the sense was, that mankind should not cease, until the accomplishment of these things; nor the generation, or people of the Jews, who should continue to be a people, until all were fulfilled; nor the generation of Christians; as if the meaning was, that there should be always a set of Christians, or believers in Christ in the world, until all these events came to pass; but it respects that present age, or generation of men then living in it; and the sense is, that all the men of that age should not die, but some should live

till all these things were fulfilled; see Matthew 16:28 as many did, and as there is reason to believe they might, and must, since all these things had their accomplishment, in and about forty years after this: and certain it is, that John, one of the disciples of Christ, outlived the time by many years; and, as Dr. Lightfoot observes, many of the Jewish doctors now living, when Christ spoke these words, lived until the city was destroyed; as Rabban Simeon, who perished with it, R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, who outlived it, R. Zadoch, R. Ishmael, and others: this is a full and clear proof, that not anything that is said before, relates to the second coming of Christ, the day of judgment, and end of the world; but that all belong to the coming of the son of man, in the destruction of Jerusalem, and to the end of the Jewish state.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This generation ... - This age; this race of people. A generation is about 30 or 40 years. The destruction of Jerusalem took place about forty years after this was spoken. See the notes at Matthew 16:28.

Till all these things ... - Until these things shall be accomplished. Until events shall take place which shall be a fulfillment of these words, if there were nothing further intended. He does not mean to exclude the reference to the judgment, but to say that the destruction of Jerusalem would be such as to make appropriate the words of the prediction, were there nothing beyond. Compare the notes at Matthew 1:22-23. So when “death” was threatened to Adam, the propriety of the threatening would have been seen, and the threatening would have been fulfilled, had people suffered only temporal death. At the same time the threatening had “a fullness of meaning” that would cover also, and justify, eternal death. Thus the words of Christ describing the destruction of Jerusalem had a fulness of signification that would meet also the events of the judgment, and whose meaning would not be “entirely filled up” until the world was closed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. This generation shall not pass — Η γενεα αυτη, this race; i.e. the Jews shall not cease from being a distinct people, till all the counsels of God relative to them and the Gentiles be fulfilled. Some translate η γενεα αυτη, this generation, meaning the persons who were then living, that they should not die before these signs, c., took place: but though this was true, as to the calamities that fell upon the Jews, and the destruction of their government, temple, c., yet as our Lord mentions Jerusalem's continuing to be under the power of the Gentiles till the fulness of the Gentiles should come in, i.e. till all the nations of the world should receive the Gospel of Christ, after which the Jews themselves should be converted unto God, Romans 11:25, &c., I think it more proper not to restrain its meaning to the few years which preceded the destruction of Jerusalem but to understand it of the care taken by Divine providence to preserve them as a distinct people, and yet to keep them out of their own land, and from their temple service. See on Mark 13:30. But still it is literally true in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem. John probably lived to see these things come to pass compare Matthew 16:28, with John 21:22; and there were some rabbins alive at the time when Christ spoke these words who lived till the city was destroyed, viz. Rabban Simeon, who perished with the city; R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, who outlived it; R. Zadoch, R. Ismael, and others. See Lightfoot.

The war began, as Josephus says, Ant. b. xx. c. 11. s. 1, in the second year of the government of Gessius Florus, who succeeded Albinus, successor of Porcius Festus, mentioned Acts 24:27, in the month of May, in the twelfth year of Nero, and the seventeenth of Agrippa, mentioned Acts 25:0 and Acts 26:0, that is, in May, A. D. 66.

The temple was burnt August 10, A. D. 70, the same day and month on which it had been burnt by the king of Babylon: Josephus, Ant. b. xx. c. 11. s. 8.

The city was taken September 8, in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, or the year of Christ 70. Ant. b. vi. c. 10.

That was the end of the siege of Jerusalem, which began, as Josephus several times observes, about the fourteenth day of the month Nisan, or our April. See War, b. v. c. 3. s. 1, c. 13. s. 7; b. vi. c. 9. s. 3.

Dr. Lardner farther remarks, There is also an ancient inscription to the honour of Titus, "who, by his father's directions and counsels, had subdued the Jewish nation and destroyed Jerusalem, which had never been destroyed by any generals, kings, or people, before." The inscription may be seen in GRUTER, vol. i. p. 244. It is as follows: -

IMP. TITO. CAESARI. DIVI. VESPASIANI. F

VESPASIANO. AUG. PONTIFICI. MAXIMO

TRIB, POT. X. IMP. XVII. COS. VIII. P. P.

PRINCIPI. SUO. S. P. Q. R.

QUOD. PRAECEPTIS. PATRIS. CONSILIISQUE. ET

AUSPICIIS. GENTEM. JUDAEOROM. DOMUIT. ET

URBEM. HIEROSOLYMAM. OMNIBUS. ANTE. SE

DUCIBUS. REGIBUS. GENTIBUSQUE. AUT. FRUSTRA.

PETITAM. AUT. OMNINO. INTENTATAM. DELEVIT.

For this complete conquest of Jerusalem, Titus had a triumphal arch erected to his honour, which still exists. It stands on the Via Sacra, leading from the forum to the amphitheatre. On it are represented the spoils of the temple of God, such as the golden table of the show-bread, the golden candlestick with its seven branches, the ark of the covenant, the two golden trumpets, c., c. for a particular account see the note on Exodus 25:31. On this arch, a correct model of which, taken on the spot, now stands before me, is the following inscription: -

SENATUS

POPULUSQUE ROMANUS

DIVO TITO. DIVI VESPASIANI. F

VESPASIANO AUGUSTO.

"The Senate and People of Rome, to the Divine Titus, son of the Divine Vespasian and to Vespasian the Emperor."

On this occasion, a medal was struck with the following inscription round a laureated head of the emperor: - IMP.erator J.ulius CAES.ar VESP.asianus AUG.ustus. P.ontifex M.aximus, TR.ibunitia, P.otestate P.ater P.atrice CO.nS.ul VIII. - On the obverse are represented a palm tree, the emblem of the land of Judaea; the emperor with a trophy standing on the left; Judea, under the figure of a distressed woman, sitting at the foot of the tree weeping, with her head bowed down, supported by her left hand, with the legend JUDAEA CAPTA. S.enatus C.onsultus. at the bottom. This is not only an extraordinary fulfilment of our Lord's prediction, but a literal accomplishment of a prophecy delivered about 800 years before, Isaiah 3:26, And she, desolate, shall sit upon the ground.