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18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
19 aAnd He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”  

The Coming of the Kingdom

20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;
21 anor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, bthe kingdom of God is within you.”  
22 Then He said to the disciples, a“The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.  
23 aAnd they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them.  
24 aFor as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.  
25 aBut first He must suffer many things and be brejected by this generation.  
26 aAnd as it bwas in the cdays of dNoah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:  
27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the aday that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and bdestroyed them all.  
28 aLikewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;  
29 but on athe day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.  
30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man ais revealed.  
31 “In that day, he awho is on the housetop, and his1 goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.  
32 aRemember Lot’s wife.  
33 aWhoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.  
34 aI tell you, in that night there will be two1 men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.  
35 aTwo women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left.  
36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”  
37 And they answered and said to Him, a“Where, Lord?” So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Luke 17:20

Cometh not with observation - With scrupulous observation. That this is the proper meaning of the original, , Kypke and others have amply proved from the best Greek writers. As if he had said: "The kingdom of God, the glorious religion of the Messiah, does not come in such a way as to be discerned only by sagacious critics, or is only to be seen by those who are scrupulously watching for it; it is not of such a nature as to be confined to one place, so that men might say of it, Behold it is only here, or only there: for this kingdom of God is publicly revealed; and behold it is among you; I proclaim it publicly, and work those miracles which Proverbs the kingdom of God is come; and none of these things are done in a corner."

Dr. Lightfoot has well observed that there are two senses especially in which the phrase "kingdom of heaven," is to be understood.

1.The promulgation and establishment of the Christian religion.

2.The total overthrow of the Jewish polity.

The Jews imagined that when the Messiah should come he would destroy the Gentiles, and reign gloriously over the Jews: the very reverse of this, our Lord intimates, should be the case. He was about to destroy the whole Jewish polity, and reign gloriously among the Gentiles. Hence he mentions the case of the general deluge, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. As if he had said: "The coming of this kingdom shall be as fatal to you as the deluge was to the old world, and as the fire and brimstone from heaven were to Sodom and Gomorrah." Our Lord states that this kingdom of heaven was within them, i.e. that they themselves should be the scene of these desolations, as, through their disobedience and rebellion, they possessed the seeds of these judgments. See on Matthew 3:2 (note).




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Luke 17:20:

John 10:22

 

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