What chapter in the Bible tells what Jesus said about the second coming?

Answer 1

The earliest mention of Jesus talking about his second coming is in Mark 9:1: "And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power."

Mark chapter 13 provides a fuller prophecy of the second coming, describing the events of the First Roman-Jewish War and the Jerusalem civil war of 70 CE, then says that this will be followed by the return of the Son of man: (Mark 13:24-26) "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. " Of course, this prophecy did not come to pass, but at the time of writing (about 70 CE), it certainly seemed as if the end was nigh.

By the 80s of the first century, when Matthew's Gospel was written, the return predicted in Mark's Gospel was becoming unlikely - the generation had already passed - and the author of Matthew realised that Mark's prophecy had to be corrected. In Matthew chapter 24, while copying as faithfully as possible from Mark, he changed the emphasis away from an impending end of the world and changed the position of the sentence about "this generation", relative to the destruction of the great buildings, so that it referred to something else altogether. He added, and emphasised, material where Jesus told the disciples that the end is not yet, and that no man knows when the end of the world will occur.