51But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
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And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-52)The design of this story being to vindicate the apostles, especially Paul (as he doth himself at large, Rom. 11:1-36), from the reflections of the Jews upon him for preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, it is here observed that he proceeded therein with all the caution imaginable, and upon due consideration, of which we have here an instance. I. There were some of the Jews that were so incensed ag…
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