Did Jesus Miscalculate the Time of His Parousia? Because of three specific verses in the Synoptics, such New Testament academics as Albert Schweitzer (and his “consistent eschatology” school), Fritz Buri, Martin Werner, Oscar Cullmann, and Werner G. Kümmel assert that Jesus mistakenly believed that his return in power and glory as the Son of Man was to take place very soon, indeed, within his and his contemporaries’ lifetime. These so-called imminence verses are the following: