Luke 10:11

"`The very dust of your town that hangs about us we wipe off as a protest. Only be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is close at hand.'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

In Context

10"But whatever town you come to and they will not receive you, go out into the broader streets and say,

12"I tell you that it will be more endurable for Sodom on the great day than for that town.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:14And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.

Luke 10:9Cure the sick in that town, and tell them, "`The Kingdom of God is now at your door.'

Acts 13:40Beware, then, lest what is spoken in the Prophets should come true of you:

Acts 13:51But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them and came to Iconium;

Romans 10:21While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."

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 →

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