New Testament 234

Luke 17:20-21

Compare Matthew 24:23; Mark 13:21;

The King James translation “the kingdom of God is within you” has occasioned a lot of New Agey nonsense, among other things (some good, some bad).

But it’s wrong.

ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν means “The kingdom of God is in your midst.”

(Still, it helped to inspire a song that I really like from my quasi-countercultural youth in the California of the late 60s.)