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heal anyone who is sick, and tell them, 'God's kingdom is right on your doorstep!'
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"When you enter a town and are not received, go out in the street and say,
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'The only thing we got from you is the dirt on our feet, and we're giving it back. Did you have any idea that God's kingdom was right on your doorstep?'
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Sodom will have it better on Judgment Day than the town that rejects you.
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"Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they'd have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy.
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Tyre and Sidon will have it easy on Judgment Day compared to you.
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"And you, Capernaum! Do you think you're about to be promoted to heaven? Think again. You're on a mud slide to hell.
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"The one who listens to you, listens to me. The one who rejects you, rejects me. And rejecting me is the same as rejecting God, who sent me."
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The seventy came back triumphant. "Master, even the demons danced to your tune!"
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Jesus said, "I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky.
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See what I've given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you.