Matthew 11:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Bethsaida

John 12:21

For

Repented

Job 42:6

John 3:5

General references

Genesis 37:34

John 4:30

John 10:37

Bible References

Bethsaida

Jesus immediately insisted that His disciples get into the boat and go ahead [of Him] to the other side to Bethsaida, while He was dismissing the crowd.

Then they came to Bethsaida; and some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged Him to touch him.

When the apostles returned, they told Him all that they had done. He took them with Him and He privately withdrew [across the Jordan] to a city called Bethsaida.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

For

The men of Nineveh will stand up [as witnesses] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now, something greater than Jonah is here.

not to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you and pay attention to My message;

On the next Sabbath almost the entire city gathered together to hear the word of the Lord [about salvation through faith in Christ].

They disagreed among themselves and they began to leave after Paul had made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying,

Repented

“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Jesus answered, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.

General references

So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.

So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

If I do not do the works of My Father [that is, the miracles that only God could perform], then do not believe Me.