'This Generation' in the Bible

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

You, Lord, will guard us;You will protect us from this generation forever.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!

I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”

I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

As the crowds were increasing, He began saying: “This generation is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation, and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all things take place.

for 40 years.Therefore I was provoked with that generationand said, “They always go astray in their hearts,and they have not known My ways.”