'Age' in the Bible
And listen, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
“And His mercy is upon generation after generationToward those who [stand in great awe of God and] fear Him.
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son [by marriage] of Eli,
for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as Jesus went, the people were crowding against Him [almost crushing Him].
For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man also be [a sign] to this generation.
The Queen of the South (the kingdom of Sheba) will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and look, something greater than Solomon is here.
so that charges may be brought against this generation [holding them responsible] for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah [the priest], who was murdered between the altar and the house of God. Yes, I tell you, charges will be brought against this generation.’
And which of you by worrying can add one hour to his life’s span?
And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers].
But first He must suffer many things and be repudiated and rejected and considered unfit [to be the Messiah] by this [unbelieving] generation.
who will not receive many times as much in this present age and in the age to come, eternal life.”
Jesus said to them, “The sons of this [world and present] age marry and [the women] are given in marriage;
but those who are considered worthy to gain that [other world and that future] age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;