Luke 19:11

The connection between Jesus being almost at Jerusalem and the kingdom appearing immediately implies that the believers in the crowd expected Jesus to begin the kingdom when He arrived there. Jesus had just told Zaccheus that salvation had come to his house that day (Luke 19:9), but salvation would not come to Israel for some time. Even though the Son of Man had come to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), the national deliverance of Israel would have to wait. What follows is another of the many passages in Luke that records Jesus’ teaching about the future.

"In Luke 19:11 the disciples are pictured as expecting something that should have been and could have been apart from the rejection of Jesus. But because of this rejection, the messianic kingdom for Israel does not come immediately, as the disciples mistakenly hoped. We see that in Luke-Acts the problem of eschatological delay is intertwined with the problem of Jewish rejection." [Note: Tannehill, The Narrative . . ., 1:260.]