mark in insisting on the futurity of the kingdom. When Jesus speaks of the kingdom, he is speaking about an in-breaking reality that remains principally in the future. So much for the question of timing. But what about the venue of this already-but-not-yet kingdom? At the risk of preempting some very respectable scholarship, I simply state that I am unimpressed by the Harnackian argument that the religion of Jesus was a religion of the heart. The truth is that the ancient world