If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Though the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.

He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry