Luke 9:5
If people refuse to accept you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave town as a warning against them.”
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4Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, leave from there.
6They left and went around the villages, announcing the good news and healing everywhere they went.
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:13I shook out the folds of my robe and said, “This is how my God will shake you out of your homes and out of your possessions if you don't keep your promise! If you don't, you'll be shaken out and end up with nothing!” Everyone there said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. The people did what they'd promised.
Matthew 10:18You will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, to witness to them and to the foreigners.
Mark 9:37“Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me doesn't welcome me but the one who sent me.”
Luke 9:48Then he said to them, “Anyone who accepts this little child in my name accepts me, and anyone who accepts me accepts the one who sent me. Whoever is least among you all is the greatest.”
Luke 10:10But if you enter a town and the people there don't welcome you, go through their streets telling them,
Acts 13:51So they shook the dust off their feet against them as a sign of protest, and went on to Iconium.
Matthew Henry on Luke 9:2-10
The Mission of the Twelve Apostles. 1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. 2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. 3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off… Read the whole commentary →