# Jesus clearly predicted his return/rule within a human lifetime of his death, right?

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**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-clearly-predicted-his-return-rule-within-a-human-lifetime-of-his-death-right/262820 "2004-09-02T19:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-clearly-predicted-his-return-rule-within-a-human-lifetime-of-his-death-right/262820/21 "2004-09-04T02:49:12Z")

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you guys didn’t read revelation 22:22 which said He is returning this May 33rd?  
:o

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-clearly-predicted-his-return-rule-within-a-human-lifetime-of-his-death-right/262820/22 "2004-09-04T17:33:55Z")

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> [@vanilla](#):
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> you guys didn’t read revelation 22:22 which said He is returning this May 33rd?  
> :o

Good one! I actually went and looked it up . . . 😛

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**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-clearly-predicted-his-return-rule-within-a-human-lifetime-of-his-death-right/262820/23 "2004-09-06T00:39:16Z")

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> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Just keep in mind that we’re not talking about what Jesus said, we’re talking about what somebody else _claimed_ that Jesus said…and these are not exactly reliable sources. They were writing decades after the fact and they weren’t witnesses.

But what other Jesus do we generally have to speak about? It’s not really all that relevant if there was a historical Jesus whose words are not well recorded: the Jesus we all discuss is the Jesus figure portrayed in the Bible, not the mostly unknown Jesus of history. When we talk about “Jesus” I generally assume that we mean the Bible figure, leaving aside whether or not that figure is historically accurate, because we have no real way of knowing, and it almost isn’t even relevant.

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