Wounto thee, Chorazin, &c.] These were cities upon the lake of Gennesaret, where Christ conversed much, and taught often. the mighty works] The great miracles. in Tyre and Sidon] Cities of great traffick by the sea. in sackloth and ashes] Repenting, and manifesting their repentance by such outward signes of humiliation, Job 42:6. These means had been sufficient to have kept them from opposing the Gospel, and to have humbled them externally, which yet they cannot work in you.