Matthew 11:21 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

BSB

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ASV

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, 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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

In this word Wo, these towns of Galilee are mourned for by the Saviour, that after so many signs and mighty works, they had not done penitence. And to these are preferred Tyre and Sidon, cities given up to idolatry and vices; For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have long ago done penitence in sackcloth and ashes. We ask where it is written that the Lord did wonders in Corozaim and Bethsaida?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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 determine: the word חורשין, "Chorasin", signifying "woody places", Dr. Lightfoot (l) conjectures it might include Cana, in which Christ wrought his first miracle, and a small adjacent country, situated in a wood, and be so called from thence; and Origen (m) reads it, χορα ζιν, "the region of Zin": woe unto thee, Bethsaida!

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Woe 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 themselves.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

In the parable, this is called his piping to us, and his mourning to us; he hath piped to us in the precious promises of the gospel, proper to work upon hope, and mourned to us in the dreadful threatenings of the law, proper to work upon fear, that he might frighten us out of our sins and allure us to himself.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 hunting” or “a house of game,” and it was probably situated on the banks of the Sea of Galilee, and supported itself by hunting or fishing. It was the residence of Philip, Andrew, and Peter, Joh 1:44. It was enlarged by Philip the Tetrarch, and called “Julia,” after the emperor’s daughter.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οὐαί	Ouai	Woe	G3759 →
σοι	soi	to you	G4771 →
Χοραζίν,	Chorazin	Chorazin!	G5523 →
οὐαί	ouai	Woe	G3759 →
σοι	soi	to you	G4771 →
Βηθσαϊδά,	Bēthsaida	Bethsaida!	G966 →
ὅτι	hoti	For	G3754 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Τύρῳ	Turō	Tyre	G5184 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Σιδῶνι	Sidōni	Sidon	G4605 →
ἐγένοντο	egenonto	had taken place	G1096 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
δυνάμεις	dunameis	miracles	G1411 →
αἱ	hai	which	G3588 →
γενόμεναι	genomenai	having come to pass	G1096 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ὑμῖν,	humin	you,	G4771 →
πάλαι	palai	long ago	G3819 →
ἂν	an	then would	G302 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
σάκκῳ	sakkō	sackcloth	G4526 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σποδῷ	spodō	ashes	G4700 →
μετενόησαν.	metenoēsan	they have repented.	G3340 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 42:6
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
leads to
- Ezra 9:6
  and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- James 4:7–10
  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Job 40:3–4
  Then Job answered the LORD:
- Job 30:19
  He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Through
John 12:21
They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
leads to
- Matthew 2:2
  asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
- Luke 19:2–4
  And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.
Through
Acts 12:20
Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their…
leads to
- Ezra 3:7
  They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by…

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The walk

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