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Heal the sick that are there, and tell the people, 'The kingdom of God is near you!'
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"But whenever you go into a city and people don't welcome you, leave. Announce in its streets,
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'We are wiping your city's dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that the kingdom of God is near you!'
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I can guarantee that judgment day will be easier for Sodom than for that city.
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"How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in your cities had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted. Long ago they would have worn sackcloth and sat in ashes.
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Judgment day will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
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And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to heaven? No, you will go to hell!
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"The person who hears you hears me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
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The 70 disciples came back very happy. They said, "Lord, even demons obey us when we use the power and authority of your name!"
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Jesus said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
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I have given you the authority to trample snakes and scorpions and to destroy the enemy's power. Nothing will hurt you.