Used to argue that the era of the Law and the Prophets had a terminus and that the gospel age superseded the old covenant administration.
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Luke 16:16
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16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
Quoted alongside Matthew 11:13 to argue that prophetic expectation up to John rules out Muhammad as a later prophet of the same order.
Brought up via superchat as a verse whose ESV/KJV reading and Joseph Smith's altered reading supposedly expose LDS prophecy claims; the hosts then checked the verse live.
Discussed as the altered LDS version of Luke 16:16 after a viewer cited it; used in a text-critical challenge about Joseph Smith's revisions to the New Testament.
Quoted to explain why Christians identify as followers of Christ and the gospel rather than simply as Jews under the earlier prophetic era.