7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. …
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. …
Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; …
But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. …
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)We have here the sending forth of seventy disciples, two and two, into divers parts of the country, to preach the gospel, and to work miracles in those places which Christ himself designed to visit, to make way for his entertainment. This is not taken notice of by the other evangelists: but the instructions here given them are much the same with those given to the twelve. Observe, I. Their number:…
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