Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Ver. 20. Then began he to upbraid] Haply, because these cities, drawn by the authority of the Pharisees, made less account of our Saviour's doctrine or miracles, by them maliciously depraved and disparaged. The blind led the blind, but both fell into the ditch, though their leaders lay undermost.
Because they repented not] There is a heart that cannot repent; that hath lost all passive power of coming out of the snare of the devil; that is, become such through long trading in sin, as neither ministry, nor misery, nor miracle, nor mercy can possibly mollify,Romans 2:5. Upon such you may write, "Lord, have mercy upon them." "Oh!" said a reverend man, "if I must be put to my option, I had rather be in hell with a sensible heart than live on earth with a reprobate mind."