“... There follows in the Lucan travel account an answer which Jesus gives to some Pharisees who ask him about the coming of the kingdom of God (17:20-21). The setting for the Pharisees’ question is left unspecified, and Jesus’ answer is an isolated saying which might have been uttered by him at any time during his ministry. R. Bultmann (HST 25) has ascribed the utterance to a Palestinian origin and recognized it as “a genuine dominical saying.” The saying is found only here in the canonical Gospels, but forms of it are to be found in the Gospel of Thomas. The first part is paralleled in § 113: “His disciple said to him, ‘On what day will the kingdom come?’ ‘It comes not with expectation (of it). They will not say, “Look, here (it is)!” or “Look, there (it is)!” Rather, the kingdom of the Father is spread out over the earth, and human beings see it not!’ ” The latter part of it finds a parallel in both the Coptic and Greek forms of the Gospel of Thomas. [...] None of these noncanonical forms, however, preserves a more primitive formulation of the canonical saying; but § 3 may be in part influenced by Deut 30:11-14. The only thing to be noted is that the first part of the saying in § 113 is addressed to disciples, whereas the Pharisees ask the question in Luke 17:20a; cf. 17:22. ...”