Matthew 11:23

Good News Translation

And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would still be in existence today!

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord.

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord in his anger has covered Zion with darkness. Its heavenly splendor he has turned into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his Temple.

Ezekiel 26:20

I will send you down to the world of the dead to join the people who lived in ancient times. I will make you stay in that underground world among eternal ruins, keeping company with the dead. As a result you will never again be inhabited and take your place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead.”

Ezekiel 32:18

“Mortal man,” he said, “mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.

Ezekiel 32:24

“Elam is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle, and they went down, uncircumcised, to the world of the dead. In life they spread terror, but now they lie dead and disgraced.

Obadiah 1:4

Even though you make your home as high as an eagle's nest, so that it seems to be among the stars, yet I will pull you down.

Matthew 10:15

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!

Matthew 16:18

And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it.

Matthew 17:24

When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?”

Matthew 4:13

He did not stay in Nazareth, but went to live in Capernaum, a town by Lake Galilee, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.

Matthew 8:5

When Jesus entered Capernaum, a Roman officer met him and begged for help:

Luke 10:15

And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!”

Luke 14:11

For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”

Luke 16:23

and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

Luke 4:23

He said to them, “I am sure that you will quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’ You will also tell me to do here in my hometown the same things you heard were done in Capernaum.

Acts 2:27

because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

Acts 2:31

David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said, ‘He was not abandoned in the world of the dead; his body did not rot in the grave.’

Jude 1:7

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and the nearby towns, whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality and perversion: they suffer the punishment of eternal fire as a plain warning to all.

Revelation 1:18

I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

Revelation 11:8

and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, where their Lord was crucified. The symbolic name of that city is Sodom, or Egypt.

Revelation 20:13

Then the sea gave up its dead. Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held. And all were judged according to what they had done.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale-colored horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades followed close behind. They were given authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill by means of war, famine, disease, and wild animals.