impossible! And yet, there it was. I looked up every other occurrence of the phrase “this generation,” and each time I came up with the same answer: Jesus was referring to His generation, the generation of people alive when He uttered the words. Every Bible commentator danced around the text. “It means the generation alive when the events described in the previous verses begin to manifest themselves,” one respected commentator wrote. If that’s true, I thought, then this is the only place where “this