Discovery BoxMatthew 11:21-22 
Context11:21 “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. 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!
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
2 tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.
3 tn Or “powerful deeds.”
4 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
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!”
