Matthew 11:23

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No! You will be thrown down to the place of death. I did many miracles in you. If these same miracles had happened in Sodom, the people there would have stopped sinning, and it would still be a city today.

Cross References

Matthew 4:13

But he did not stay in Nazareth. He went to live in Capernaum, a town near Lake Galilee in the area near Zebulun and Naphtali.

Genesis 13:13

The Lord knew that the people of Sodom were very evil sinners.

Revelation 11:8

The bodies of the two witnesses will lie in the street of the great city. This city is named Sodom and Egypt. These names for the city have a special meaning. This is the city where the Lord was killed.

Jude 1:7

Also, remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. Like those angels they were full of sexual sin and involved themselves in sexual relations that are wrong. And they suffer the punishment of eternal fire, an example for us to see.

Acts 2:27

because you will not leave me in the place of death. You will not let the body of your Holy One rot in the grave.

Luke 14:11

Everyone who makes themselves important will be made humble. But everyone who makes themselves humble will be made important.”

Matthew 16:18

So I tell you, you are Peter. And I will build my church on this rock. The power of death will not be able to defeat my church.

Matthew 8:5

Jesus went to the city of Capernaum. When he entered the city, an army officer came to him and begged for help.

Obadiah 1:4

This is what the Lord says: “Even though you fly high like the eagle and put your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there.

Lamentations 2:1

Look how the Lord has covered daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger. He has thrown her, the glory of Israel, from the sky to the ground. In his anger he showed no care even for the Temple where he rests his feet.

Luke 16:23

He was sent to the place of death and was in great pain. He saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his arms.

Luke 4:23

Jesus said to them, “I know you will tell me the old saying: ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’ You want to say, ‘We heard about the things you did in Capernaum. Do those same things here in your own hometown!’”

Matthew 17:24

Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. There the men who collect the two-drachma Temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?”

Ezekiel 26:20

I will send you down into that deep hole—to the place of death. You will join those who died long ago. I will send you to the world below, like all the other old, empty cities. You will be with all the others who go down to the grave. No one will live in you then. You will never again be in the land of the living!

Ezekiel 31:14

“Now, none of the trees by that water will be proud. They will not try to reach the clouds. None of the strong trees that drink that water will brag about being tall, because all of them must die. They will all go down into the world below, to Sheol, the place of death. They will join the other people who died and went down into that deep hole.”

Ezekiel 32:18

“Son of man, cry for the people of Egypt. Lead Egypt and the daughters from powerful nations to the grave. Lead them to the world below where they will be with the other people who went down into that deep hole.

Ezekiel 32:24

“Elam is there and all its army is around her grave. All of them were killed in battle. Those foreigners went deep down into the ground. When they were alive, they made people afraid. But they carried their shame with them down to that deep hole.

Matthew 10:15

I can assure you that on the judgment day it will be worse for that town than for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Luke 10:15

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to the place of death!

Acts 2:31

David knew this before it happened. That is why he said this about that future king: ‘He was not left in the place of death. His body did not rot in the grave.’ David was talking about the Messiah rising from death.

Revelation 1:18

I am the one who lives. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there before me was a pale-colored horse. The rider on the horse was death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth—power to kill people with the sword, by starving, by disease, and with the wild animals of the earth.

Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. All these people were judged by what they had done.