14And 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.
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But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, …
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.
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)We have here the instructions that Christ gave to his disciples, when he gave them their commission. Whether this charge was given them in a continued discourse, or the several articles of it hinted to them at several times, is not material; in this he commanded them . Jacob’s blessing his sons, is called his commanding them, and with these commands Christ commanded a blessing. Observe, I. The peo…
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