Luke 9:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Whosoever

Acts 18:6

Shake

Luke 9:53

Nehemiah 5:13

A testimony

Luke 5:14

Matthew 10:18

Bible References

Whosoever

and He told them, “Whoever welcomes this child in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me [also] welcomes Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you [that is, the one who is genuinely humble—the one with a realistic self-view]—he is the one who is [truly] great.”

But whatever city you enter and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

Whoever does not welcome you, nor listen to your message, as you leave that house or city, shake the dust [of it] off your feet [in contempt, breaking all ties].

Any place that does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet as a testimony against them [breaking all ties with them because they rejected My message].”

“Whoever receives and welcomes one child such as this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives not [only] Me, but Him who sent Me.”

But they shook its dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

But since the Jews kept resisting and opposing him, and blaspheming [God], he shook out his robe and said to them, “Your blood (damnation) be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Shake

but the people would not welcome Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.

I also shook out the front of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not keep this promise; like this may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised the Lord. Then the people acted in accordance with this promise.

A testimony

Jesus ordered him to tell no one [that he might happen to meet], “But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your purification, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony (witness) to them [that this is a work of Messiah].”

and you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.