Question about Caiaphas

Thank you for your reply, Tom. I find your argument to be problematic. Let me explain why.

First, Jesus, though speaking to Caiaphus, the high priest, uses a plural "you" to address all of the Jewish leaders who were assembled there. I think this is important when we compare Jesus' statement to his disciples and the crowd before his transfiguration. There he specifically said "some of you". So, in that situation, not everyone sees the coming revelation of the kingdom (the fulfillment of that statement is a subject for another time). However, with the plural "you" in Matt 26, everyone is included. Your argument that at least some of the people present would have lived til 70 AD does not qualify as a fulfillment of what Jesus said. The prophecy cannot be fulfilled in 70 AD because not everyone who was there at Jesus' trial would have been alive to see it. Caiaphus' ossuary has been discovered (with near certainty) and his bones have been estimated to be about 60 years of age. He most likely would have been much older than 60 if he had lived til 70 AD. And it is doubtful that he was the youngest person present when Jesus prophesied.

To summarize, the prophecy requires that everyone present see both events while your argument lessens this requirement. I see no justification for changing the requirement from "all" to "some". And if you argued that everyone was present in 70 AD, this is highly unlikely and, in Caiaphus' case, almost certainly impossible.