He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him.

I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me."

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.

The people in the towns where Jesus had performed most of his miracles did not turn from their sins, so he reproached those towns.

But Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death.' "