Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 10:13

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Luke 10:13

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Luke 10:13

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes." — Luke 10:13 (ASV)

Woe unto thee, Chorazin!—See Notes on Matthew 11:21, where the words appear as spoken at an earlier period. We have again to choose between the two alternative views:

  1. that the words were spoken but once, and floated in men’s memories without any very definite note of time or place, and were wrongly placed by one, or, possibly, by both Evangelists;

  2. that they were repeated on different occasions.

The latter seems, on the whole, by far the more probable.