Glossary Terms

Not a future political territory but a present reality. Jesus located it precisely: entos hymon — within you (Luke 17:21). The alternate translation “among you” reflects a theological preference more than the Greek; Jesus was addressing Pharisees, making “among you” an unlikely reading. The kingdom is not coming to be observed from outside — it is already…

The common Greek dialect of the 1st century Mediterranean world, and the language of both the New Testament and the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament). Because NT writers drew on LXX vocabulary, NT words arrive already loaded with meaning shaped by the Greek OT.