1817 Dec r 1

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

Irr

Jesus’s allusions

Now then in Luke comes the matter of the /the interposed/ upbraidings.

13. ‘Wo unto the Chorazin, wo unto thee Bethsaida: for if the mighty works had been

done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they had a great while ago

repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.’

14. ‘But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for

you.’

15. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell.’

Note (a)

In Saint Luke (Luke ix. 10 to 17) the upbrading thus

bestowed upon Chorazin and Bethsaida presents itself at least in so far as concerns

Bethsaida as having a special reference. For the in the last preceding Chapter Luke

ix. 10 after mention made (verses 1 and 2) of the

mission of the twelve apostles as above it is said

‘10. And the Apostles whom they were returned, told him all that they had done. And

he took them’ (it continues) ‘and went aside privately into a desert place, belonging

to the city called Bethsaida.

11. And the people when they knew it followed him .... &c. then comes the

miracle of the 5000 fed with the 5 loaves and the two fishes.

As to Chorazin being mentioned in the same breath with Bethsaida a natural

conclusion is that it was in the proximity of Bethsaida, in which case the miracle

would be matter of as much notoriety in the one place as in the other.