kingdom of God has come upon you” (Matt. 12:28). Where the Spirit of God is at work, there the kingdom of God has come. James Dunn makes the remarkable statement that “it is not so much the case of where Jesus is there is the kingdom, as where the Spirit is there is the kingdom.”14 Jesus maintains intimate communion with the Father in prayer, and this unleashes the Spirit’s power to heal and renew. When Jesus returns to Capernaum, among the crowd that
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