Matthew 16:28: Jesus tells his disciples 'there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.' No one from that first-century audience is alive 2000 years later, so this was a false prediction — a lie.

This objection substantially overlaps with the fuller treatment of Jesus's 'this generation'/imminence sayings developed elsewhere in this project (see the 'Jesus is late' sheet), so the case is only summarized here rather than re-derived. The key point is the narrative's own immediate sequencing. In all three Synoptics, this saying is followed within days by the Transfiguration (Matt 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36 — Mark and Luke both note 'six days later' / 'about eight days'), where Peter, James, and John — who were 'standing there' — see Jesus visibly glorified, conversing with Moses and Elijah, and declared Son by the Father's voice: a preview of royal, divine glory that the Gospel writers evidently intend as the near-term referent of 'the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.' This is not a later apologetic patch; it is how the earliest interpreters read the saying. 2 Peter 1:16-18 explicitly links 'the power and coming [parousia] of our Lord Jesus Christ' to the apostles having been 'eyewitnesses of his majesty' on 'the holy mountain,' quoting the Transfiguration voice almost verbatim — an early apostolic text tying this very saying to an event that did occur within the lifetime of 'some standing there.'

The Gospels' own literary arrangement — placing the saying immediately before its narrated fulfillment — shows deliberate authorial design rather than an unfulfilled claim later explained away. See the fuller argument in the 'Jesus is late' sheet for the broader case regarding imminence language and 'this generation' sayings.