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Luke 10:13
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Luke 10:13
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13 “Woe to you, Chorazin![a] Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if[b] the miracles[c] done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,[d] they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.[e]
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- Luke 10:13 sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was more significant; it was declared a polis (“city”) by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.
- Luke 10:13 tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.
- Luke 10:13 tn Or “powerful deeds.”
- Luke 10:13 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 hardened sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom and repented, unlike you!”
- Luke 10:13 sn To clothe oneself in sackcloth and ashes was a public sign of mourning or lament, in this case for past behavior and associated with repentance.
Luke 10:14
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Luke 10:14
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14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon[a] in the judgment than for you!
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- Luke 10:14 sn Jesus’ general point is that in the day of judgment the Gentile cities will come off better than the cities of Galilee. This is not to indicate toleration for the sins of the Gentile cities, but to show how badly the judgment will go for the Galilean ones. In the OT prophetic oracles were pronounced repeatedly against Tyre and Sidon: Isa 23:1-18; Ezek 26:1-28:26; Joel 4:4; Zech 9:2-4.
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