13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. 16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
This passage of scripture is interesting to me. I've heard several discussions, growing up and into my adulthood, about whether or not we would all face the same "strictness" of judgment at the end of our lives or of time. However I do not believe that I have ever heard this passage of scripture referenced when discussing the subject.
Maybe I am totally reading it wrong, but it seems like to me the passage is saying that because some of these cities have been presented with more evidence of God, that they will face a stricter judgment than those for whom God did not as vividly reveal Himself to.
I think, for me, that this also re-raises the age old question of what happens to the person stranded on a desert island by himself, never hearing of the gospel of Jesus Christ?
What do you think?
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