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neither will they say, `Look, here!` or, `Look, there!` for behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
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A Spiritual, Not Political, Kingdom
Commentators agree that Jesus is correcting the Pharisees' expectation of a visible, political kingdom. Instead of a grand spectacle you could point to and say, 'Here it is!', the kingdom of God is a spiritual reality. Its arrival is not marked by earthly pomp and circumstance but by a divine power that works in ways the world does not expect.
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Luke
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lo here! or, Lo there! When an earthly prince visits different parts of his territories, he does it with pomp. His movements attract obser…
Within you (εντος υμων). This is the obvious, and, as I think, the necessary meaning of εντος. The examples cited of the use of εν…
19th Century
Anglican
The kingdom of God is within you.—The marginal reading, “among you,” has been adopted, somewhat hastily, by most commenta…
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Baptist
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save thi…
The time of the coming of the kingdom was important both to the Pharisees and to the Christians of Luke’s day, though for different reasons (cf. [R…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither shall they say Or shall it be said by any, making their observations, and pointing to this, or that place:
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The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, established in the heart by the power of Divine g…
