“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Woe to Unrepentant Cities

Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.