B2 Answer: “What will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?” (vv 4–35) A2 Answer: “When will these things happen?” (vv 36–44)22 The second question of the disciples is answered first. The use of sēmeion (“sign”) in v 30 together with “and they will see” (kai ipsontai) does seem unavoidably the primary answer to the question of the disciples for the sign (sēmeion) of His coming. But undoubtedly the central force of 24:15 to the 15–28 unit, together with hotan oun idēte (“therefore,