Matthew 11:20

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Summary

Matthew 11:20

Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:

Began

Luke 10:13

Upbraid

Because

General references

John 4:30

John 10:37

John 12:37

Bible References

Began

A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

Upbraid

But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

Because

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

General references

So they went out of the town and came to him.

If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me;

But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him: