Luke Chapter 16 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets `were' until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.
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BBE Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
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DARBY Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
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KJV Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
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WEB Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
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YLT Luke 16:16

the law and the prophets `are' till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - The Law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Some expositors discern so little connection between the sayings contained in these verses which intervene between the two great parables of the unjust steward and the rich man and Lazarus, that they consider them as a number of sayings of the Master collected by Luke and insorted here. A clear thread, however, runs through the whole piece between the two parables. Probably, however, here, as in many parts of the Gospel, we only have just a bare sketch, or precis, of what the Lord said; hence its fragmentary character. Here (in the sixteenth verse), the Master went on speaking to the Pharisees who derided him (ver. 14). "Up to the period of John the Baptist," said the Master, "the old state of things may be said to have continued in force. With him began a new era; no longer were the old privileges to be confined to Israel exclusively; gradually the kingdom of God was to be enlarged, the old wall of separation was to be taken down. See, every man is pressing into it; the new state of things has already begun; you see it in the crowds of publicans, sinners, Samaritans, and others pressing round me when I speak of the kingdom of God."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) The law and the prophets were until John.--See Notes on Matthew 11:14-15. What had then been said to the disciples of the Baptist is now reproduced to our Lord's own disciples and to the Pharisees. The latter had closed their eyes to the fact that all previous revelations led up to the work of John, as that in its turn was preparatory for the work of Christ.Every man presseth . . .--The fact asserted, that of a "rush," as we should say, into the Kingdom, but a rush from which the Pharisees had held aloof, answers to the stronger expression in St. Matthew (Matthew 11:12), "the violent take it by force."