Jesus answers a question about the timing of the kingdom with an answer the Pharisees were not expecting.
Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”
The Pharisees, sensibly, want to know when. When will the kingdom arrive. Jesus’s answer breaks the question. The kingdom is not a future event. It does not arrive with observable signs. It is, and the Greek phrase entos hymōn admits two translations, both of which are interesting, within you, or among you.
Read the passage holding both translations at once. Either reading dismantles the central assumption of the question, which is that the kingdom is elsewhere and later. The gospel is, on this point, a contemplative document. The kingdom is here. You have been standing in it.
Where today have you been waiting for a kingdom you are already inside of?