it? Why wasn’t the concept clear to me before? The Bible is most fundamentally a narrative, and the kingdom of God is the thematic framework for that narrative. Similarly, when many modern-day Christians come to kingdom language in the Bible, they have a hard time knowing what it is. Jesus never directly explains it; he never gives a definition, and the Gospel writers never record the crowds or disciples asking what it is. There seems to be an implicit assumption that everyone knows what the kingdom