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Jesus the Messiah rebukes several towns
Jesus rebukes the towns of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum for their failure to repent despite the many miracles performed in them. He compares them unfavourably with the pagan cities of Tyre, Sidon and even Sodom, declaring that those cities would have repented. This passage emphasises responsibility in proportion to the revelation received and the eternal stakes of rejecting the Gospel.
Matthew 15.24 (King James Version) :But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.King James Version (1769), domaine public — texte : eBible.org