Matthew 16:24-28

24-28. It is a key to the interpretation of the four remaining verses of this paragraph, (which commentators have generally missed,) that the kingdom of Matthew 16:28 is the kingdom of Matthew 16:19. The meaning of the entire paragraph then is plain. This kingdom, now conferred under emblems of keys and binding and loosing, is a kingdom of suffering as well as of power. It is to be brought in by endurances and crosses for his sake as king, and under him as our final judge and rewarder at the judgment day, (Matthew 16:28;) in order that he may come at his resurrection and establish on earth (Matthew 16:28) his kingdom of grace “with power.” So that Matthew 16:27-28 refer to very different events.