The Samaritans, the sinners, and tax collectors were entering, but the Pharisees and religious leaders were not. Jesus has been spending his time in these chapters revealing that the Pharisees are not in the kingdom. Jesus was not telling the Pharisees that the kingdom of God was within them. The KJV, NKJV, and NIV 1984 reads “the kingdom of God is within you.” This is a plausible reading of the Greek, but is rightly rejected because Jesus is talking to the Pharisees. Jesus says that you are not going to say that the kingdom is here or there because the kingdom of God is in their midst. Jesus wants the Pharisees to grasp that the kingdom is not coming in the way they think it would come. In fact, the scriptures point to the suddenness of the kingdom’s arrival. There would not be signs like this upon which people could make calculations. They were always asking for signs from heaven (cf. Jesus counters this thinking by teaching the Pharisees that the kingdom was not coming with signs that could be observed. They were looking for upheavals and revolts. If the pagans were not defeated or flocking to Zion, then the kingdom had not come. If the glorious temple of Ezekiel 40-48 had not been constructed, then the kingdom had not come. In the Jewish way of thinking, if Pilate was still governing Judea, then the kingdom had not come. They desired to make calculations for the coming of the kingdom based upon various events that they saw (cf. The rabbis taught that there would be great heavenly signs to signal the arrival of the kingdom. Jesus answers this question in two sections, first to the Pharisees and second to his disciples. Since the kingdom of God is near, the Pharisees want to know when this kingdom would come.

(Luke 10:8–12 ESV)īut if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Luke has emphasized this truth in a number of places throughout this gospel.īut I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:27 ESV) Jesus has also been repeatedly teaching the nearness of the coming of the kingdom of God. John the Baptizer had been proclaiming that the kingdom of God was near. The Pharisees ask when the kingdom of God would come. There have been two themes in this section: what is the kingdom of God and who belongs to the kingdom of God? Luke continues his instructions about the kingdom by noting the question of the Pharisees concerning the kingdom. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.We have been studying in this section of Luke’s gospel about the kingdom of God. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

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