<p>11:22&nbsp;<em>But I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you-</em>&nbsp;Tyre and Sodom were major Gentile cities. The Lord clearly believed their inhabitants would be resurrected and appear at the future day of judgment. Seeing that knowledge is the basis of responsibility to judgment, it follows that there was some witness made to them. Ezekiel&rsquo;s prophecies of condemnation against Tyre can therefore be seen as conditional prophecies, like the prophecy of Nineveh&rsquo;s destruction- they could have repented in response to them. The witness to Sodom was presumably through the witness of Lot&rsquo;s righteous life. The extent of human responsibility to Divine judgment would appear to be far greater than we might suspect. Those who live in the presence of believers are surely responsible to judgment, according to the pattern of Sodom. Clearly there will be degrees of punishment at that day- and for the home villages of the disciples, their suffering will be &lsquo;intolerable&rsquo;. The implication is that if the witness of Ezekiel, Lot etc. had been backed up by the kind of miracles the Lord was performing, then this would&rsquo;ve tipped the balance- and they would&rsquo;ve repented.&nbsp;</p>