Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No,
you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were
performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have
remained to this day.
(24) But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on
the day of judgment than for you.’
Matthew 10:15
I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and
Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Note: Some Bible versions refer ‘the land of
Sodom’ in Matthew 10:15 and 11:24. However, the NIV (above) captures the meaning. What
is in focus is not the land but the people who lived there. “. . . the word ‘land’ indicates
the people who inhabit that it,” writes William Hendriksen, Exposition of the Gospel of
Matthew, 1973, page 460