Luke 9:5
If any will not receive you, shake off the very dust from your feet as you leave that town as a testimony against them.”
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
4Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that place.
Cross References
Matthew 10:18For my sake you will even be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.
Mark 9:37“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me, but him who sent me.”
Luke 9:48Then he said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who will be great.”
Luke 10:10But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
Acts 13:51But Paul and Barnabas shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went 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 →