MATTHEW 11:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.”
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Capernaum, the headquarters of Jesus' Galilean ministry (Matthew 4:13), receives the most severe judgment: it will be brought down to Hades, echoing Isaiah 14:13–15's oracle against Babylon. Sodom — the city whose wickedness was so great that God destroyed it with fire — would have remained if it had seen what Capernaum saw. The comparison to Sodom is the strongest possible statement about Capernaum's culpability.
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