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20 One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God begin?” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God isn’t ushered in with visible signs. 21 You won’t be able to say, ‘It has begun here in this place or there in that part of the country.’ For the Kingdom of God is within you.”[a]

22 Later he talked again about this with his disciples. “The time is coming when you will long for me[b] to be with you even for a single day, but I won’t be here,” he said.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 17:21 within you, or “among you.”
  2. Luke 17:22 long for me, or “long for the Son of Man.”

The Coming of the Kingdom of God(A)

20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come,(B) Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, 21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’(C) because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”[a]

22 Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man,(D) but you will not see it.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 17:21 Or is within you