Jesus encouraged the crowds (8:34) and His disciples that some of those listening to His teaching on costly discipleship would not die (“taste death”) until they saw that God’s kingdom had come in power. The two most probable interpretations of this difficult saying are that (1) God’s kingdom came in power at the resurrection and at Pentecost (Rom. 1:4; Acts 1:8), or (2) the transfiguration served as an anticipation of the powerful coming of God’s kingdom at Christ’s second coming.