Then they shall see the Son of man.—Note the simpler form, which at once replaces and explains St. Matthew’s “the sig…

Theophylact of Ohrid: After the Lord had finished all that concerned Jerusalem, He now speaks of the coming of Antichrist, …

The celestial drama reaches a climax when the Son of Man comes in the clouds with “great power and glory.” Jesus describes his coming in these vers…

And then shall they see the son of man
Not in person, but in the power of his wrath and vengeance; of which the Jews…

The disciples had confused the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. This mistake Christ set right, and showed that the day of Christ'…