Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 11:21
Woe to thee, Chorazin! Chorazin has long been extinct, and its
site is not certainly known. It is named only here and in Luke 10:13.
Situated about two miles from the ruins of Tell-Hum, thought to be
Capernaum, there are ruins now called Kerazeh, including a synagogue,
columns and walls of buildings, supposed to mark the site of Chorazin.
Woe to thee, Bethsaida! The word means "House of fish", and the
name would imply that it was a fishing town, and it was the home of the
fishermen, Peter, Andrew and Philip (John 1:44). Its locality is in
dispute. It was probably situated on both sides of the Jordan, where it
emptied into the Sea of Galilee. The ruins of a city lie there, mostly
on the east side of the river.
For if the mighty works . . . had been done in Tyre and Sidon.
These were rich Phoenician trading cities on the east shore of the
Mediterranean. Tyre was long the chief commercial city of the world; it
still exists as a wretched town.
In sackcloth and ashes. The symbols of mourning and repentance.
See Jonah 3:5 on the repentance of Nineveh. Sackcloth was a kind of
coarse cloth, woven of camel's hair.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 11:21
Luke 10:13-15
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