Matthew 11:23

New American Bible - revised edition

And as for you, Capernaum: ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his wrath has abhorred daughter Zion, Casting down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, Not remembering his footstool on the day of his wrath!

Ezekiel 26:20

Then I will thrust you down with those who go down to the pit, to those of the bygone age; I will make you dwell in the netherworld, in the everlasting ruins, with those who have gone down to the pit, So you will never return or have a place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

This has happened so no well-watered tree will gain such lofty height, or lift its crown to the clouds. Not one of those fed by water will tower in height over the rest. For all of them are destined for death, for the underworld, among mere mortals, with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:18

Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt— you and the women of mighty nations— Send them down to the underworld, with those who go down into the pit.

Ezekiel 32:24

There is Elam and all its horde around its grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword; they descended uncircumcised into the underworld, Those who spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who go down into the pit.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle, and your nest is set among the stars, From there I will bring you down— oracle of the Lord.

Matthew 10:15

Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Coming Persecutions.

Matthew 16:18

And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 17:24

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

Matthew 4:13

He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Matthew 8:5

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed to him,

Luke 10:15

And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 16:23

and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Luke 4:23

He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’”

Acts 2:27

because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.

Acts 2:31

he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption.

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 1:18

the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.

Revelation 11:8

Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.

Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades gave up their dead. All the dead were judged according to their deeds.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.