Luke 21 Footnotes

21:28,31-32 The references to “you,” “this generation,” and “these things” are interpreted in different ways. Matthew and Mark focused the remarks especially on the original audience and the question of the destruction of the temple. Here they seem to have referred both to the original audience, some of whom were alive at the destruction of Jerusalem, and to the generation of the end, who will witness the signs of the coming of the Son of Man. Presumably the latter generation is spoken of as the former because of the close link Jesus drew between the two events.