Chorazin is identified with Kerazeh, two and a half miles N. of Tell Hum. The ruins here are extensive and interesting; among them a synagogue built of hard black basalt and houses with walls still six feet high. Recovery of Jerusalem, p. 347.
Bethsaida (House of Fish) called Julias in honour of Julia daughter of Augustus, was rebuilt and beautified by Herod Philip, in whose dominions the town was situated.
Verse Matthew 11:21. _WO UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN - BETHSAIDA!_] It would be better to translate the word ουαι σοι, _alas for thee_, than _wo to_ _thee_. The former is an exclamation of pity; the latter a...
CHORAZIN AND BETHSAIDA - These were towns not far from Capernaum, but the precise situation is unknown. See “The Land and the Book” (Thomson), vol. ii. pp. 8, 9. Bethsaida means literally a “house of...
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...
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...
WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN. Chorazin has long been extinct and its site is not certainly known. It is named only here and in Luke 10:13. Jerome, who lived within about 400 years of when these words were...
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...
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...
WOE, &C. Figure of speech _Maledictio._ App-6. A testimony as to His rejection. CHORAZIN. Not named elsewhere, and no miracles recorded as performed there, or at Bethsaida. See App-169. BEEN DONE. t...
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...
ΧΟΡΑΖΕΊΝ is identified with Kerazeh, two and a half miles N. of Tell Hum. The ruins here are extensive and interesting; among them a synagogue built of hard black basalt and houses with walls still si...
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...
_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...
ΕΙ если, вводит _conj._, противоречащее факту: "вот если бы нечто было сделано в прошлом, они бы уже покаялись" (МТ, 91f). ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΑΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096). _Adj. part._ переведе...
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...
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...
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. WOE U...
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...
11:21 place (b-18) _ Ginomai_ , 'taken place,' or 'happened.' I do not say 'had been wrought,' because the emphasis is on the place of their happening rather than on the fact of their being wrought....
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...
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...
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...
WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN! WOE UNTO THEE, BETHSAIDA! — It is singular enough that no miracles are recorded in the Gospels as wrought at either of these cities. The latter was indeed nigh unto the scene...
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'...
_Reflections by Jesus on the reception given to Him by the towns of Galilee_ (Luke 10:13-15)....
Χοραζίν, Βηθσαϊδάν : the former not again mentioned in Gospels, the latter seldom (_vide_ Mark 6:45; Mark 8:22; Luke 9:10), yet scenes of important evangelic incidents, probably connected with the syn...
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...
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...
_Woe to thee, Corozain, &c. These four verses shew us how dangerous it is to resist the divine graces, and not to make good use of those favourable opportunities which the divine Providence hat placed...
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...
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...
21._If those mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon. _As _Tyre and Sidon, _in consequence of their proximity, were at that time abhorred for their ungodliness, pride, debauchery, and other vices...
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...
WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN!.... Though many of Christ's mighty works were done in this place, yet mention is made of it no where else, but here; whether it was a single city, or a country, is not easy to...
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Ver. 21....
_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...
CHORAZIN-BETHSAIDA; cities in Galilee which he often visited, and in which he taught and wrought miracles. TYRE AND SIDON; commercial cities in the western part of Palestine, on the Mediterranean sea...
WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN! WOE UNTO THEE, BETHSAIDA! FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS WHICH WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN DONE IN TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WOULD HAVE REPENTED LONG AGO IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES....
The curse upon Chorazin and Bethsaida:...
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 11:22"....
Tertullian On Modesty The Lord Himself presumed repentance on the part of the Sidonians and Tyrians if they had seen the evidences of His "miracles."[116]...
Matthew 11:21 Woe G3759 you G4671 Chorazin G5523 Woe G3759 you G4671 Bethsaida G966 For G3754 if G1487 works...
“Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.” He contrast...
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...
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...
Matthew 11:21. The places of less importance come first CHORAZIN. Mentioned only here and Luke 10:13. Probably identical with the ruins of Kerazeh. BETHSAIDA. A city of Galilee (John 12:21); the ho...
CHORAZIN (Χοραζειν). Mentioned only here and in Luke 10:13. Proof of "the meagreness of our knowledge of Judaism in the time of Christ" (Plummer) and of the many things not told in our Gospels (John...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HOW TERRIBLE IT WILL BE. Chorazin has vanished. It is mentioned only here and in Luke 10:13. About two miles from the ruins of Tell-Hum (thought to be Capernaum) there are ruins now called Kerazeh whi...
_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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:20 CHORAZIN was just northwest of Capernaum. For BETHSAIDA and CAPERNAUM, see note on Luke 9:10....
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
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...
_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...
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;...
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...
Acts 13:44; Acts 28:25; Ezekiel 3:6; Ezekiel 3:7; Jeremiah 13:27;...
Wo to thee, Chorazin — That is, miserable art thou. For these are not curses or imprecations, as has been commonly supposed; but a solemn, compassionate declaration of the misery they were bringing on...