And so I sent for you at once, and you have been good enough to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God, waiting to hear anything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

And Paul concluded: "You are to know, then, that God's message of salvation has been sent to the Gentiles. They will listen!"

If I sent you to great nations that spoke difficult languages you didn't understand, they would listen to you.

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!

But many who now are first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.