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Additional Teachings
“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
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The Coming of the Kingdom of God
Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,
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nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
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But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
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Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
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The Rich and the Kingdom of God
A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
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Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
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Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
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The Parable of the Ten Minas
While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.
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Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
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Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
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For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
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For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
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And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
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so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
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who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God.
