Everyone thought that the kingdom of God could not happen now; it could only happen then—later , after the Romans were ejected or eliminated, which in turn couldn’t happen (for the Zealots) until later , after the Jews were militarily mobilized and led by a great military liberator (or messiah), which couldn’t happen (for the Pharisees) until later , after all the prostitutes and drunks and other undesirables were either reformed or otherwise eliminated. Put together, these conditions were so hard to imagine actually occurring anytime soon that they were considered (by the comfortably adjusted
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Why here now is a scandal
