Matthew 2:8
Context2:8 He 1 sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”
Matthew 11:21
Context11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! 2 Woe to you, Bethsaida! If 3 the miracles 4 done in you had been done in Tyre 5 and Sidon, 6 they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 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
3 tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.
4 tn Or “powerful deeds.”
5 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
6 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!”