Upon Peter’s confirmation of this staggering fact that the one they had followed as a prophet was in reality God who had become a man, Jesus confided in them by telling of his coming death. In Mark, it almost seems that Peter spoke in a trance as to who Jesus was—or somehow gave a word from God without hearing what he had said—for he now corrects the one he has just called the Son of God.

Jesus promised that some of the disciples would see him and his kingdom coming in power before they died. They are all dead, so what happened to that promise? The kingdom came in power at Pentecost, but there is more to the promise than that. Jesus hasn’t returned. How could any of them have seen it? We don’t know how many were given visions of Jesus’ return, but we have the record of one vision given to John. John saw the Second Coming before he died and recorded what it would be like for us in the Revelation.