Luke 10:5
Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be upon this house!’
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
In Context
4Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, and no sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
6If there is a man of peace there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.
Cross References
Luke 19:9Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man has shown that he too is a son of Abraham.
2 Corinthians 5:18And all these things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17
The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →