Woe to Unrepentant Cities

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Matthew 11:20–24 ESV

Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”

Luke 10:13–16 ESV

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

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Matthew 11:20 ESV

Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

Jesus denounces Chorazin and Bethsaida (exact location unknown)

Luke confirms near remote place of feeding of five thousand

Bethsaida: home of Philip, Andrew & Peter

“Where most of his might works had been done”

“Because they did not repent”

Matthew 11:21 ESV

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Tyre and Sidon

Modern day: Lebanon

Joel’s Time: Philistia

Philistines: (from crete) were an aggressive and war mongering people

Tyre & Sidon: Proud, money mad and cruel

Titus 1:12 “One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.””

“They would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes”

Matthew 11:22 ESV

But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

“More bearable on the day of Judgement for Tyre & Sidon, than for you”

Old Testament: Day of Judgement

Isaiah 13:9 “Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.”

Ezekiel 30:3 “For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.”

Matthew 11:23 ESV

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Jesus turns his comments to Capenaum where he had been living and from which he had established his ministry

King of Babylon boasted, and Isaiah responded...

Isaiah 14:13 “You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;”

Isaiah 14:15 “But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.”

“Will you be exalted to heaven? No! You will be brought down to Hades [Hell]”

Old testament: Sheol

If the same works as done in Capenaum had been done is Sodom (and Gamorrah) it would have not been destroyed (indicating a great repentance would have incurred)

Matthew 11:24 ESV

But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”

“More tolerable on the day of judgement for the lad of Sodom, than for you”

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