ingdom of God cometh not
with observation: 21 neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There!
for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye
shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye
shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo,
here! go not away, nor follow after _them_: 24 for as the
lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the
heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son
of man be in his day. 25 But first must he suffer many things and
be rejected of this generation. 26 And as it came to pass in the
days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of
man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the
flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise even as it came to
pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded; 29 but in the day that Lot went
out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and
destroyed them all: 30 after the same manner shall it be in the
day that the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he that shall
be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go
down to take them away: and let him that is in the field likewise
not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek
to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose _his
life_ shall preserve it. 34 I say unto you, In that night there
shall be two men on one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other
shall be left. 35 There shall be two women grinding together; the
one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 37 And they
answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where
the body _is_, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

Either in mere curiosity or with a desire for debate the Pharisees
approached Jesus with a question as to when the Kingdom of God would come.
Jesus replied that it would not come in such manner as they were
expecting, nor would it appear as a visible development of which they
could say, "It is here," or "there," for, in the person of the King, it
was already "in the midst" of them and they did not recognize it. Thus
when Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you," he