Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. ...there are some standing here, which shall not taste death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
Early Christians expected Jesus to return within a generation of his death and the non-occurrence of the second coming surprised them.
