W oe unto thee, Chorazin The mention of this town is very interesting because this is the only occasion (Matthew 11:21) on which the name occurs, and we are thus furnished with a very striking proof of the fragmentariness of the Gospels. The very site of Chorazin was long unknown. It has now been discovered at Keraseh, the ruins of an old town on a wady, two miles inland from Tel Hum (Capernaum). At a little distance these ruins look like mere rude heaps of basaltic stones.

Bethsaida See on Luke 9:10.

mighty works Literally, "powers."

they had a great while ago repented like Nineveh (Jonah 3:5-10), "Surely had I sent thee unto them they would have hearkened unto thee," Ezekiel 3:6; comp. James 4:17.

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