His ethical teachings on such topics as marriage and divorce and remarriage or celibacy (Matthew 19:1-12); on paying taxes; on living with and among earthly governments (in Mark 12:13-17 and parallels); on coming hardships and persecution (in Matthew 10:17-42 and parallels) and other such teaching, all suggest that the fullness of the arrival of the kingdom was not as imminent as Schweitzer first