Acts 18:6

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Summary

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

He shook

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Acts 20:26

1 Timothy 5:22

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General references

Mark 8:13

Acts 28:24

Bible References

He shook

But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them, and went to Iconlure;

And whoever will not welcome you, or listen to your words, on leaving that place shake off from your feet its very dust.

And when you leave that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against all the people who do not welcome you."

But if you go into any town and they do not welcome you, go out into the streets and say,

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I therefore protest to you today that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,

Make it a rule not to ordain anyone in haste, and not to be responsible for the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

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Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

But as some of them grew harder and harder and refused to believe, actually criticizing The Way before the people, he left them, withdrew his disciples, and continued his discussions in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

but I began to preach first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem, and all over Judea, and then to the heathen, to repent and turn to God, and to live lives consistent with such repentance.

"So you must understand that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen; and they will listen to it!"

I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven,

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.

And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered everybody they found, both good and bad, and the bridal-hall was packed with guests.

Or is He the God of Jews alone? Is He not the God of heathen peoples too? Of course, He is the God of heathen peoples too,

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.

General references

And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe.