Skip to Content
Commentary Library

Commentaries on Luke 10:12

Read verse in KJV Bible Reader

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

But I say unto you,.... The same that he said to the twelve apostles, when he sent them out, Matthew 10:15, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. By "that day" is meant, the famous day to come, the last day; the day of judgment, as it is expressed in Matthew; and so the Ethiopic version reads here, "it shall be better in the day of judgment". Sodom was a very...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. The ample commission which Christ gave to the seventy disciples to preach the gospel, and to confirm it by miracles; and the full instructions he gave them how to manage themselves in the execution of their commissions, and great encouragements therein, ver. 1-16. II. The report which the seventy disciples made to their Master of the success of their negotiation, and...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe 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. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. Hearing and...