Luke 9:5

5 Wherever they don't welcome you, shake the dust from your feet when you leave that town as a warning to them."

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 said to them, "Take nothing for your trip -- neither a walking stick nor a pack, neither bread nor money; and don't have two shirts.
4 Whatever house you enter, stay there and go out from there.
5 Wherever they don't welcome you, shake the dust from your feet when you leave that town as a warning to them."
6 They set out and went through village after village, healing and announcing the Good News everywhere.
7 Herod the governor heard about all that was going on and was perplexed, because it was said by some that Yochanan had been raised from the dead,
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