9. Heal the sick people who live there, and tell them, ‘God’s kingdom is now very near you!’
10. “But if you go into a town and the people don’t welcome you, then go out into the streets of that town and say,
11. ‘Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that God’s kingdom is coming soon.’
12. I tell you, on the judgment day it will be worse for the people of that town than for the people of Sodom.
13. “It will be bad for you, Chorazin! It will be bad for you, Bethsaida! I did many miracles in you. If those same miracles had happened in Tyre and Sidon, then the people in those cities would have changed their lives and stopped sinning a long time ago. They would have worn sackcloth and sat in ashes to show that they were sorry for their sins.
14. But on the judgment day it will be worse for you than for Tyre and Sidon.
15. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to the place of death!
16. “When anyone listens to you my followers, they are really listening to me. But when anyone refuses to accept you, they are really refusing to accept me. And when anyone refuses to accept me, they are refusing to accept the one who sent me.”