20-37. The -When?" and -Where?" of the Kingdom of God.

16. And when he was demanded of the Pharisees Literally, "But being further questioned by the Pharisees."

should come Literally, "is coming." They seem to have asked with impatient irony, -When is all this preparation and preaching to end, and the New Kingdom to begin?"

with observation i.e. by narrow, curious watching. See Luke 14:1. He implies that their entire point of viewis mistaken; they were peering about for great external signs, and overlooking the slow and spiritual processes which were at work before their eyes.

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