Can't believe you're belaboring the point and accuse me of incivility to boot.

<<In the Four Gospels it is most especially applied to the Apostles, sometimes styled the "twelve disciples" (Matthew 10:1; 11:1; 20:17; 26:20; 28:16, having reference to events subsequent to Christ's Passion, mentions only the "eleven disciples"), sometimes merely called "the disciples" (Matthew 14:19; 15:33, 36; etc.). The expression "his disciples" frequently has the same import.>>

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05029a.htm

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13

<<He is extremely precise in using word, etc.>>

The attributions to Jesus in the NT are just that. The utterances, mentality and political disposition of the historical Jesus can only be surmised.

So in the earliest Christian witness Paul reassures the Thessalonians of a symbolic Day of the Lord? Of course not. It was to be a literal event.