20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-37)We have here a discourse of Christ’s concerning the kingdom of God , that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up , and of which there was great expectation. I. Here is the demand of the Pharisees concerning it, which occasioned this discourse. They asked when the kingdom of God should come , forming a notion of it as a temporal kingdom , which should advance the Jewish…
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