Luke 10:13

¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’

¹² I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
KJV: 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.
WEB: “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
ASV: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
DARBY: Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
BLB: Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles having happened in you⁺ had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

ÅB: Ve deg, Korasin! ve deg, Betsaida! for dersom de kraftige gjerninger som er gjort i dere, var gjort i Tyrus og Sidon, da hadde de for lenge siden omvendt seg og sittet i sekk og aske.
OTB: "Ve deg, Korasin! Ve deg, Betsaida! For hvis de mirakler som er gjort i dere, hadde blitt gjort i Tyrus og Sidon, ville de ha omvendt seg for lenge siden, sittende i sekk og aske.
B1930: Ve dig, Korasin! ve dig, Betsaida! for dersom de kraftige gjerninger som er gjort i eder, var gjort i Tyrus og Sidon, da hadde de for lenge siden omvendt sig og sittet i sekk og aske.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 23:1–18
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
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Matthew 11:20–23
Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
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Ezekiel 26:1–28:26
In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Joel 3:4–8
Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
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Acts 28:25–28
They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
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Ezekiel 3:6–7
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
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Romans 9:29–33
It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
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Mark 8:22–26
When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
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