The Words of Jesus Gustav Dalman

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Luke 16:16

The saying which Matthew and Luke found in their sources made mention only of the violent treatment of the theocracy since the time of John. Luke thought upon attempted entrance into it, and thus found it natural to insert it in the position which it occupies in his Gospel; Matthew—with greater reason—understood it to refer to the violent treatment of the preachers of the theocracy, and has therefore connected it with the answer sent by Jesus to John.Neither by Jesus nor by the evangelists is the statement intended to suggest that any one could actually appropriate the theocracy through the exercise of force. Unless absolutely driven to it, we ought not to try to discover beneath these words an idea so distinctly at variance with the whole style of our Lord's teaching.

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