Luke 9:4

4 And if you go into a house, let that house be your resting-place till you go away.

Luke 9:4 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:4

And whatsoever house ye enter into
In any town, or city, they should come to in their journey through Judea, and should enter into for the sake of lodging, during their stay:

there abide;
do not shift quarters, or move from house to house:

and thence depart;
the house you come into first, go out of last, when ye leave the town or city. The Vulgate Latin and Persic versions read, and thence do not depart: and so Beza says it is read in a certain copy, but then the sense is the same, as the Ethiopic version renders it, "do not go out from thence, until ye depart"; that is, do not leave the house, till you depart out of the town or city; agreeably to which is the Arabic version, "remain in it until the time of your going out"; (See Gill on Matthew 10:11).

Luke 9:4 In-Context

2 And he sent them out to be preachers of the kingdom of God, and to make well those who were ill.

3 And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, no stick or bag or bread or money, and do not take two coats.

4 And if you go into a house, let that house be your resting-place till you go away.

5 And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.

6 And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.