What is an hyperbole?
Hyperbole is a language that describes something as better or worse than it really is. The question is, Does the Bible contain hyperbole? And if it does, then is it wrong?
Straight and forward, hyperbole is not bad or wrong.
There are many Christians who believe when the Bible says All, then it's All. Does "all" always mean "all"? That's not possible! Jesus taught with hyperbole, and if you think there's a problem with that, then you're suggesting that He should have brought a language to use from heaven. Moreover, I'm not a frequent user of hyperbole, I rarely do hyperbole. There's no language on this planet that escapes hyperbole. How do you use "brothers" and "sisters"? At home, we use brothers and sisters for our siblings, Then you go to church and people greet each other as brothers and sisters, so it's obviously very different in terms of how you conceptualize that. "All" can also be used in a hyperbolic sense.
In Matthew 3:5
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
It says "all Jerusalem went out to see John the Baptist." Well, when it says "all" there, does it mean every last person in Jerusalem went out to see John the Baptist? John the Baptist was down 20-30 miles, downhill. Is that really what happened, that "all Jerusalem went out to see John the Baptist"? What I want to suggest to you is: No. Actually, let me just tell you, there's one person who didn't go down there. There was a man that John records who had been crippled for 38 years and sat by the pool of Bethesda there, and Jesus is going to come up to this guy. And this guy is going to say, "Hey, I can't get into the water fast enough" and Jesus is going to say, "Get up and walk" and the guy is going to get up and walk into the temple. So that guy had been crippled for 38 years. There is no way he went down to see John the Baptist and got baptized by him. There are going to be lots of people like old people, handicaps, even young people. The question is, Did all the priest go there? The Pharisees and Sadducees in Jerusalem, some of them didn't even have any regards for him. Why would they go?
Joh 5:5-7/KJV
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
So when it says all Jerusalem went down to see John the Baptist, it's meaning all, the same way we say "everybody went to to the." When you say everybody, everyone in Yisrael show their happiness yesterday at so so event, that's a hyperbole, it's an overstatement.
When "all" is "all". Paul said all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. In this context, "all" is "all". Context determines the meaning of a specific word or statement. You can't just take a word out of context and tell what it means.
Rom 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
You got to be really careful with it. Don't let anyone twist your brain around and be thinking something is wrong some where. God communicates to us in our own language and how we communicate with one another.

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