<p>20:1 <i>And it came to pass, on one of the days he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, there came to him the chief priests and the scribes with the elders</i>- Matthew says the Lord &quot;entered&quot; the temple to teach. &quot;Entered&quot; is&nbsp;<i>erchomai</i>, and is matched by the priests and elders 'coming' to Him,&nbsp;<i>proserchomai</i>. The impression is created of direct confrontation, head on.&nbsp;His teaching was the preaching of the Gospel- of the Kingdom of God. But His take on the good news of the Kingdom, as witnessed by multiple parables about the Kingdom, was that the principles of the future political Kingdom on earth must be lived now. All the people wanted was to see the Messianic Kingdom come literally. In chapter 19 we saw how He set up a mock triumphal entry to explain that this was not for now. And now He backs that up by explaining what &quot;the Kingdom&quot; at this stage was really all about in personal terms. Indeed, His view of the Kingdom was totally opposed to theirs. And so in His next parable, He explains that actually Israel must kill their king as they killed their prophets, in order for the Kingdom to come as they wished.</p>