MATTHEW 10:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And 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.”
And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. The dust-shaking is a gesture of prophetic judgment and personal disassociation: the Jewish practice of shaking off Gentile dust when leaving Gentile territory is here applied to the towns and households of Israel that reject the kingdom's messengers. Acts 13:51 records Paul and Barnabas shaking dust from their feet in Pisidian Antioch after the Jewish leadership rejected their message. The gesture is not contempt but judgment — the messengers have done their part; the rejection is the town's or household's responsibility.
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