Mat 10:23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Jesus instructed his disciples to hurry because the time for preaching before his return was relatively short:
This emphatic statement leaves no room for long delay. It would certainly not have taken 2,000 years to reach the towns of Israel. In fact, most of those towns had been destroyed by a.d. 70. So, Christ’s return must have been by that time.
This verse has caused no little discussion. Some have even said the Lord Jesus made a mistake here!
—Earl D. Radmacher, Ronald Barclay Allen and H. Wayne House, Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary (Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, 1999), Matt. 10:23.
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