Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 11:20

20 Then began he to upbraid the cities, wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.

Our Lord had hitherto spent most of his time in Galilee, and the Cities belonging to that Province, there both Iohn the Baptist, and himself had preached the Gospel, there be had wrought many Miracles, by both aiming at their Repentance, but there were multitudes that did not receive him, nor would be brought to any sight of their sins, or any acknowledgment of him as the Messias. He now begins to reprove them smartly, not that they did not applaud, and commend him, but because they did not Repent. This was Christ's and in all his Preaching, and in all his miraculous Operations, to bring men to Repentance, and to receive him as the Messias, and this should be the great end pursued by all his Ministers.

Marginal references: Luk. 10.1[illegible: 1 letter].