Luke 17:20. Asked by the Pharisees. To entangle Him, for they were seeking occasion to kill Him. Even in Perea, their enmity had been lately increased (see the last discourse, chaps. 15, 16). Possibly there was also mockery in the question, but the Pharisees would in that case have scrupulously avoided the expression: the kingdom of God, which means the actual kingdom of the Messiah.

Cometh not with observation, i.e., when men are looking for it. The coming of the kingdom of God will not be of such a character that men can see outward tokens of preparation for it, and determine when it is to come.

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