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Woes to the unrepentant cities are preached by Jesus in Matthew and Luke against three cities of Galilee.〔; 〕 Matthew says: The three cities mentioned lay just north of the Sea of Galilee. Chorazin is not otherwise mentioned in the Gospels. Bethsaida is where Philip, Andrew, and Peter were from, and where Jesus healed a blind man. Capernaum, however, is mentioned many times in the Gospels and was the site of many of Jesus' healings and miracles, serving for a time as the center of his public ministry. Tyre and Sidon were cities that the Prophets had pronounced God's judgment against.〔 etc.〕 Sodom, of course, was infamous as the city that God had spectacularly destroyed for its wickedness in the time of Abraham. In essence, then, Jesus is contrasting three cities where he has performed many signs with three Gentile cities known for such extraordinary wickedness as to deserve God's destruction, saying that on the Day of Judgment, the former will be judged more harshly, because of their far greater unwillingness to repent.〔John Gill's ''Exposition of the Entire Bible'', (Matthew 11:20 ff. )〕 These cities are associated with the Antichrist in medieval sources. The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, commenting on the above Gospel passage, states that the Antichrist "will be conceived in Chorazin, be born in Bethsaida, and begin to rule in Capernaum." ==See also== * Woes of the Pharisees 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woes to the unrepentant cities」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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