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# Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
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Jesus speaks as if the people of the cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida are there listening to him, but they are not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-apostrophe]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# If the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon
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Jesus is describing a situation that could have happened in the past but did not. Alternate translation: "If someone had performed the miracles for the people of Tyre and Sidon that I performed for you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# they would have repented long ago, sitting
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"the wicked people who lived there would have shown that they were sorry for their sins by sitting"
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# sitting in sackcloth and ashes
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"wearing sackcloth and sitting in ashes"
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