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) There will be a judgment after death. (2) Earthly punishment for sin does not fulfill the requirements of Divine justice. (3) The people of Sodom were not annihilated, but were alive waiting for that Day of Judgment.
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...
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...
MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. Sodom had fallen two thousand years before Christ and had been extinct ever since, yet the Lord speaks of. _future_ day of judgment for both Sodom and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
See on Matthew 10:15....
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The curse upon Capernaum:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Matthew 11:24 But G4133 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 be G2071 (G5704) tolerable G414 land...
“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...
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...
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....
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 11:20. _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...
_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...
Lamentations 4:6; Luke 10:12; Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:22; Mark 6:11
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....
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...