Luke 9:5

5 If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Luke 9:5 in Other Translations

5 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.

5 And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them. ”

5 And if a town refuses to welcome you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.”

5 If you're not welcomed, leave town. Don't make a scene. Shrug your shoulders and move on."

5 And as many as receive you not, when ye depart from that city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

5 If people don't welcome you, leave that city, and shake its dust off your feet as a warning to them."

5 If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

5 Some people may not welcome you. If they don't, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town. This will be a witness against the people living there."

Luke 9:5 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:5

And whosoever will not receive you
Unto their houses:

when ye go out of the city;
where lodging and entertainment are refused you;

shake off the very dust from your feet, for a testimony against them;
(See Gill on Matthew 10:14) (See Gill on Mark 6:11)

Luke 9:5 In-Context

3 He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.

4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town.

5 If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

6 So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.

7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead,

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 10:14