Luke 16:16 "The Law = Torah and the Prophets continued in effect until John the baptist. From that time on, the reign (royal rule; kingdom; sovereign influence and activity) of God is being progressively brought and declared as the good news of well-being, ease and goodness – and everyone is one after another being pressed and forced into it (or, as a middle voice: and so, without any recourse to law or customary right, everyone is progressively crowding himself into it)!

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ "The Law [= Torah] and the Prophets [continued in effect] until John [the baptist]. From that time on, the reign (royal rule; kingdom; sovereign influence and activity) of God is being progressively brought and declared as the good news of well-being, ease and goodness – and everyone is one after another being pressed and forced into it (or, as a middle voice: and so, without any recourse to law or customary right, everyone is progressively crowding himself into it)!