DavidPT
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Jesus tells his disciples that they will not have canvased Israel before the Son of Man comes (Mt 10:23). Does this mean that the province was so immense that twelve men would need more than two thousand years to canvas it? If Christ has not yet come back, then after two thousand years, parts of Israel must not have yet been reached. Surely this notion is absurd, especially when we see in the Scriptures that the countryside had indeed been canvased.
Per your understanding then, why does the Son of man need to come before they have gone over all the cities of Israel? Come to do what? The context mainly involves discipleship. That could mean Jesus was speaking to disciples in general, which could also include disciples in future generations. Which then could mean He wasn't being literal about the cities of Israel, as in only cities literally in Israel, but that this instead was meaning something else altogether. For instance. Eventually 70 AD would occur, which then caused those living in Israel at the time to be scattered across the globe, thus now making the cities of Israel to be involving the entire planet, so to speak.
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