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ButπλὴνI tellλέγωyouὑμῖνthatὅτιit will beἔσταιmore bearableἀνεκτότερονfor the landγῇof SodomΣοδόμωνonἐνthe dayἡμέρᾳof judgmentκρίσεωςthanἢfor you.”σοί
Matthew 11:24
Study it in the app“But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.””
With the Greek beneath
Matthew 11:24, word by word
- I tellλέγωlegō
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “legō” appears- it will beἔσταιestai
be
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “estai” appears- more bearableἀνεκτότερονanektoteron
tolerable
Tolerable, bearable; "more tolerable".
Where else “anektoteron” appears- for the landγῇgēi
land
A country or a region.
Where else “gēi” appears- of SodomΣοδόμωνSodomōn
Sodom
See it on the mapWhere else “Sodomōn” appears- the dayἡμέρᾳhēmerai
judgment day
The day of the Lord, when God judges the world.
Where else “hēmerai” appears- of judgmentκρίσεωςkriseōs
judgment
A judge's sentence; above all, the one God will give at the end.
Where else “kriseōs” appears
Parallel passages
Other books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
Woes on the cities of the lake
A similar saying; scholars discuss whether it is the same saying in another setting or a repeated one.
See them side by side
Matthew 11:20-24
20Then he began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not changed their minds. 21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23And you, Capernaum, you will not be exalted to heaven, will you? To Hades you will go down; for if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
12I tell you that it will be more tolerable on that day for Sodom than for that city. 13Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. 15And you, Capernaum, will you really be exalted as far as heaven? You will be brought down as far as Hades!
Places in this verse
Sodom ?
Today: disputed; perhaps south or northeast of the Dead Sea
A city of the Jordan plain; its site is not known for certain, perhaps near the Dead Sea.
Its people were very wicked (Gen 13:13). God destroyed it with fire, and saved Lot (Gen 19:24-25).
The context
23And you, Capernaum, you will not be exalted to heaven, will you? To Hades you will go down; for if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 · This verse (above)
25At that time Jesus responded and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and the intelligent and revealed them to little children.
To study Matthew 11 in a group
1. What it says
What did Jesus tell John's messengers to report about what they hear and see (vv. 4–5)?
2. What it means
Why does Jesus say his yoke is easy and his burden light (vv. 28–30)?
3. How I live it
Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to him (v. 28). What burden could you bring to him today?