Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city—for possibly a whole town might not furnish one "worthy."
shake off the dust of your feet—"for a testimony against them," as Mark and Luke add (Mark 6:11; Luke 10:11). By this symbolical action they vividly shook themselves from all connection with such, and all responsibility for the guilt of rejecting them and their message. Such symbolical actions were common in ancient times, even among others than the Jews, as strikingly appears in Pilate (Matthew 27:24). And even to this day it prevails in the East.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 10:14:
Luke 10:3-12
Acts 13:51
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