Luke 16:16
16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.
Until – At first reading of this passage in English, it sounds like Jesus is contrasting two periods of time – the time of the Law and the Prophets up until John the Baptist, and then the time after John the Baptist when the “kingdom of God is preached and everyone is pressing into it”. Is that, in fact, the case? Or is there something else going on here that we’re missing in our English, Greek-influenced western understanding of the text?
