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Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for a worker deserves his wages -- don't move about from house to house.
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"Whenever you come into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put in front of you.
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Heal the sick there, and tell them, `The Kingdom of God is near you.'
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But whenever you enter a town and they don't make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,
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`Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off as a sign against you! But understand this: the Kingdom of God is near!'
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I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for S'dom than for that town.
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"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.
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But at the Judgment it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you!
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"And you, K'far-Nachum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Sh'ol!
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"Whoever listens to you listens to me, also whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the One who sent me."
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The seventy came back jubilant. "Lord," they said, "with your power, even the demons submit to us!"