LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets. The OT. until John. The ministry of John the Baptist concluded a long history of OT prophecy that promised the coming of the messianic kingdom. Everyone forces his way into it is a puzzling statement. It may suggest that the faith that brings one into the kingdom involves a kind of holy “violence” toward oneself in the form of repentance and self-denial.

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