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Verse Matthew 11:24. _BUT - IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR THE LAND OF
SODOM_] γη σοδομων, _the land of the Sodomites_; i.e. the
ancient inhabitants of that city and its neighbourhood.
In Jude, Jude...
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8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED.
CHAPTER 11
1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The
King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The King...
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WOE TO UNBELIEVING CITIES (Luke 10:13; in the address to the Seventy).
We should rather have expected to find this passage in Matthew 10.
Some scholars regard the denunciation as the product of a late...
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THE SIX ACCENTS IN THE VOICE OF JESUS (Matthew 11:1-30)
Matthew 11:1-30 is a chapter in which Jesus is speaking all the time;
and, as he speaks to different people and about different things, we
hear...
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Then he began to reproach the cities in which the most numerous of his
deeds of power had been done, because they did not repent. "Alas for
you Chorazin! Alas for you Bethsaida! For, if the deeds of p...
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The Cities that repented not
St Luke 10:13-15, where the words form part of the charge to the
seventy disciples. It is instructive to compare the connection
suggested by the two evangelists. In St Ma...
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THE CITIES THAT REPENTED NOT
St Luke 10:13-15, where the words form part of the charge to the
seventy disciples. It is instructive to compare the connection
suggested by the two evangelists. In St Ma...
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Ver 20. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his
mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21. Woe unto thee,
Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, whic...
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_A MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE MATTHEW 11:20-24:_ The Lord pronounced woes
upon the cities where most of His mighty works were done because they
did not repent. "Then He began to rebuke the cities in which...
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THEN BEGAN HE TO UPBRAID THE CITIES— After reproving the Pharisees,
Jesus pronounced heavy judgments against Chorazin, Bethsaida, and
Capernaum, cities which he had often blessed with his presence; fo...
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Section 25
JESUS CONDEMNS UNBELIEVING CITIES AND INVITES BABES TO COME TO HIM
TEXT: 11:20-30
I. HEARTBROKEN CONDEMNATION
20.
Then began he to unbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works
wer...
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But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR THE LAND OF
SODOM IN THE DAY...
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7 Compare Luk_7:24-30.
7 The Lord might well have spoken disparagingly of John at this
juncture. Instead, He gives him a eulogy which places him on the
highest pinnacle of human fame. He gives him a...
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See on Matthew 10:15....
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THE WOES UPON CHORAZIN, BETHSAIDA, AND CAPERNAUM(Luke 10:12 cp.
Matthew 10:15). These were the cities in which 'most of His mighty
works were done,' and yet nothing is said in the Gospels of any
minis...
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THE DISCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST
1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started
on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the
ministry (28 a.d.) and were away...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 11
JOHN THE *BAPTIST ASKED A QUESTION 11:1-6
V1 Jesus finished giving instructions to his 12 *disciples. Then he
went on from there...
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Chapter 10
The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1
I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1
HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our
Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
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_Reflections by Jesus on the reception given to Him by the towns of
Galilee_ (Luke 10:13-15)....
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WOE OR WELCOME
Matthew 11:20
_ The voice of upbraiding,_ Matthew 11:20. The Judge weeps as he
pronounces the doom of those who reject Him. They would have crowned
Him king, but refused to repent. See...
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This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of
inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John
made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permit...
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SOVEREIGN, DISCRIMINATING MERCY OF GOD
Matthew 11:20-30. “Then He began to upbraid the cities, in which
most of His mighty works were wrought, because they did not repent:
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe...
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Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a
striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has
been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
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From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not
indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the
cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the
o...
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BUT I SAY UNTO YOU,.... Capernaum, and the inhabitants thereof, as
before, to Chorazin and Bethsaida.
IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR THE LAND OF SODOM, IN THE DAY OF
JUDGMENT, THAN FOR THEE: though t...
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But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Ver. 24. _It shall be more tolerable_] Infidelity then is, in some
respect, a worse si...
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_Then began he to upbraid the cities_ Which he had often blessed with
his presence, and in which he had preached many awakening sermons, and
performed many astonishing miracles. It is observable, he h...
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MORE TOLERABLE; they will be punished less severely, because they have
not sinned against and rejected so much light. The higher men are
raised in privileges, the lower, if they continue to abuse then...
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The curse upon Capernaum:...
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BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR THE LAND OF
SODOM IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAN FOR THEE.
Capernaum, the commercial metropolis of northern Palestine, had been
signally marked and...
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Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and
preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the
prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciples...
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16-24 Christ reflects on the scribes and Pharisees, who had a proud
conceit of themselves. He likens their behaviour to children's play,
who being out of temper without reason, quarrel with all the a...
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OLBGrk;
Ver. 23,24. This speech of our Saviour is much of the same import with
the other. The scope and sense of it is the same, to let the
Capernaites know that the hardness of their heart was greate...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And it is He who uses [the words], that it will be more tolerable for
Sodom in the general judgment than for those who beheld His wonders,
and did not believe on Him...
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Matthew 11:24 But G4133 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 be
G2071 (G5704) tolerable G414 land...
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“But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.”
Note the solemn repetition of ‘I say to you'. Again the same
principle applies. Even sinf...
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JESUS CASTIGATES HIS LOCAL TOWNS FOR THEIR FAILURE TO REPENT IN VIEW
OF THE FACT THAT THEY TOO HAVE SEEN THE MESSIANIC SIGNS, BUT WITHOUT
RESPONDING (11:20-24).
In this chapter Jesus has already been...
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Matthew 11:24. A future judgment is referred to, since our Lord speaks
of what _shall take place_ with regard to Sodom, which had been so
long destroyed. The inhabitants had not been annihilated....
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This section is a continuation of the preceding discourse. The
comparison between the children of ‘this generation' and ‘wisdom'
which is justified by her works, is, on the one hand, sharpened into a...
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Matthew 11:20. _Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of
his mighty works were done, because they repented not:_
They listened; sometimes, they applauded; but they repented not; and
there...
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Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to
preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the...
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Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to
preach in their cities._
Whatever he commanded, he himself did. H...
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CONTENTS: Answer to questions sent Jesus by John the Baptist. Judgment
predicted as result of rejection of Christ. Rest for individuals who
put their trust in Him.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist...
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Matthew 11:3. _Art thou he that should come, or do we look for
another._ Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not
doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. The...
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GOD WILL SHOW MORE MERCY TO SODOM. They made better use of the
opportunities they had been given. Sodom had been destroyed two
thousand years before Christ, yet he speaks of a future judgment. (1)
The...
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_Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsatda!_
THE DAMNATION UNDER THE GOSPEL MORE INTOLERABLE THAN THAT OF SODOM
I. There shall be a day of judgment.
II. In the day of judgement some sinners...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:1 Opposition to the Messiah Increases.
There has been occasional resistance to Jesus’ ministry (e.g.,
Matthew 9:3). It now begins to increase sig
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:20 CHORAZIN was just northwest of
Capernaum. For BETHSAIDA and CAPERNAUM, see note on Luke 9:10....
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CHAPTER 11
_And it came to pass_, &c. _He passed from thence_ : That means, He
separated Himself from His Apostles, whom He sent to preach the Gospel
by themselves, both that they might prepare the wa...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 11:21. SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.—In the East, it was common for
mourners to put on a black garment which resembled a sack, with holes
for the arms, and to strew ashes upon the hea...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 11:1
Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The
same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53;...
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Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments,
he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities (Matthew
11:1).
So He sent them out in front of them, and then He...
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Lamentations 4:6; Luke 10:12; Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:22; Mark 6:11
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Moreover I say unto you — Beside the general denunciation of wo to
those stubborn unbelievers, the degree of their misery will be greater
than even that of Tyre and Sidon, yea, of Sodom....
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Observe here, 1. That there shall be. day of judgment.
2. That in the day of judgment some sinners shall fare worse than
others. There are degrees of punishment among the damned.
3. That the worst o...