'Present' in the Bible
"But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like children sitting in the open places, who call to their playmates.
There will stand up men of Nineveh at the Judgement together with the present generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and mark! there is One greater than Jonah here.
The Queen of the south will awake at the Judgement together with the present generation, and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and mark! there is One greater than Solomon here.
Then he goes and brings back with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they come in and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first. So will it be also with the present wicked generation."
He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
I tell you in solemn truth that all these things will come upon the present generation.
I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.
Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were both present there, sitting opposite to the sepulchre.