by this generation Jesus meant those living at the time He spoke. That generation certainly saw the fulfillment of His prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, but this view faces the obvious difficulty that it did not see the fulfillment of the eschatological aspects of the discourse. To avoid the conclusion that the words of Jesus did not prove true, other meanings for this generation have been advocated. Lenski stresses the qualitative aspect of the expression to mean “this kind” and