Luke 10:10-12 But into whatever city you enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,… To "shake off the dust of their feet" as a witness against any city which had wholly rejected their message, signified that they had no more part or lot with the inhabitants — that they would retain nothing of theirs, no, not so much as what accidentally cleaved to their sandals. This was one of the many outward significant symbolical acts of which the special messengers of God made constant use. Thus Jeremiah put on a yoke, and hid a girdle by the side of the Euphrates; thus Agabus bound St. Paul's girdle round his own hands and feet; and Paul himself and Barnabas on one occasion used this very sign of shaking off the dust of their feet against the Jews of Antioch in Pisidia, who had rejected God's word spoken by their mouth. We have given up altogether the use of such signs, and I believe have lost much by our rejection of them. (M. F. Sadler.) Parallel Verses KJV: But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,WEB: But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say, |
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