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is matthew 10:23 a change created because of the delay in the second visit ?
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IR_2017

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January 19, 2021 - 3:41 pm

In Matthew 10:23, he said to the disciples, “When you are persecuted in one town, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man (Jesus) returns“.

Matthew 10:23 is a Matthean addition that limits the duration of the apparent delay. Its redactional character is apparent from its function as the conclusion of the unit in 10:17-23 which was taken from the Markan Olivet discourse (Mark 13:9-13) and relocated here. A sure sign that the Matthean version is redactional of Mark is the doublet (“he who endures to the end will be saved”) in both 10:22 and 24:13. The author brings together the eschatological persecution of the disciples with the instructions in 10:5-15, with 10:23 drawing on 10:14. The author is still thinking of his contemporaries, and not some distant future time.

As for Mark 13:10, the author is probably thinking of Paul’s declaration that the gospel had already spread to all creation (Romans 1:5, 8, 10:16-18, 1 Thessalonians 1:8, Colossians 1:5, 23), and Paul’s mission certainly preceded the disaster of the Jewish revolt and the destruction of the Temple, so the preaching was accomplished first (πρῶτον in 13:10), with Paul indeed giving his testimony before governors and the imperial court in Rome (as in Mark 13:9)

so, is matthew 10:23 a change created because of the delay in the second visit ? 

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** you do not have permission to see this link **But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

 

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17 Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. 18 On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

A sure sign that the Matthean version is redactional of Mark is the doublet (“he who endures to the end will be saved”) in both 10:22 and 24:13. The author brings together the eschatological persecution of the disciples with the instructions in 10:5-15, with 10:23 drawing on 10:14. The author is still thinking of his contemporaries, and not some distant future time.

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January 21, 2021 - 7:44 pm

There  is  very  clearly  a  non-Pauline  gentile  missionary  effort  of some  sort.    If  Jesus viewed  his  ministry  as  Jewish  only  plainly  not  everyone  got  the  word.   Yet  why  would  the  gospel  writers  put  this  kind  of  exclusivist  language  on  Jesus’  lips?    Perhaps  you’re right  Robert.    We  are  led  to  believe  by  Acts  that  this  issue  had  been  settled  in James’  and  Paul’s lifetimes.   Maybe  there  is  a controversy  still  going  on  in  the  late  first  century  even  after  the  Revolt.         

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For those Christians who believe the return of the nation of Israel was by God’s direction and spirit then, yes, the return of Christ will occur before ALL Israel acknowledges Christ as the Messiah. 

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