Matius 11:21
Konteks11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! 1 Woe to you, Bethsaida! If 2 the miracles 3 done in you had been done in Tyre 4 and Sidon, 5 they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matius 12:41
Konteks12:41 The people 6 of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them 7 – and now, 8 something greater than Jonah is here!
[11:21] 1 sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after
[11:21] 2 tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.
[11:21] 3 tn Or “powerful deeds.”
[11:21] 4 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
[11:21] 5 sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”
[11:21] map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
[12:41] 6 tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anhr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).