²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. ³⁰ But if the Lord makes a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

³¹ So it was, when he finished speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them split open.