Mateo 11:20

20 Juicio para los incrédulos
Luego Jesús comenzó a denunciar a las ciudades en las que había hecho tantos milagros, porque no se habían arrepentido de sus pecados ni se habían vuelto a Dios.

Mateo 11:20 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 11:20

Then began he to upbraid the cities
When he had sent forth his disciples to preach, and had been in these several cities hereafter mentioned himself, and had taught and preached in them, and confirmed his doctrine by many wonderful works; when he had observed how ill they had used both John and himself, representing the one as having a devil, and the other as a licentious person; when they could not be pleased with the ministry of the one, nor of the other, he very seasonably and righteously began to reproach them with their ungenerous treatment of him, their ingratitude to him, their unbelief in him, the hardness and impenitence of their hearts; which could not be moved to repent of their evil ways, and believe in him, and acknowledge him as the Messiah, by all the instructions he gave them, and miracles he wrought among them: for the cities he has a view to, were such,

wherein most of his mighty works were done;
the most for number, and the greatest in their kind; as particularly at Capernaum; where he cured the centurion's servant, recovered Peter's wife's mother from a fever, healed the man sick of a palsy, raised Jairus's daughter from the dead, made whole the woman that had a bloody issue, opened the eyes of two blind men, and cast out a devil from a dumb man, possessed with one: all these, and more, he did in this one city, and therefore he might justly upbraid them,

because they repented not:
not because they did not commend him, and speak well of his works, for he sought not his own glory, but their good: all he did was, in order to bring men to repentance of their sins, and faith in himself, that they might be saved.

Mateo 11:20 In-Context

18 »Pues Juan no dedicaba el tiempo a comer y beber, y ustedes dicen: “Está poseído por un demonio”.

19 El Hijo del Hombre,
por su parte, festeja y bebe, y ustedes dicen: “¡Es un glotón y un borracho y es amigo de cobradores de impuestos y de otros pecadores!”. Pero la sabiduría demuestra estar en lo cierto por medio de sus resultados».

20 Juicio para los incrédulos
Luego Jesús comenzó a denunciar a las ciudades en las que había hecho tantos milagros, porque no se habían arrepentido de sus pecados ni se habían vuelto a Dios.

21 «¡Qué aflicción les espera, Corazín y Betsaida! Pues, si en las perversas ciudades de Tiro y de Sidón se hubieran hecho los milagros que hice entre ustedes, hace tiempo sus habitantes se habrían arrepentido de sus pecados vistiéndose con ropa de tela áspera y echándose ceniza sobre la cabeza en señal de remordimiento.

22 Les digo que, el día del juicio, a Tiro y a Sidón les irá mejor que a ustedes.