Christian Standard Bible
Matthew 10:14
14If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
Matthew 10:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
Context of Matthew 10:14
12Greet a household when you enter it, 13and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it; but if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you. If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town. 15Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. 16“Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.
Read all of Matthew 10Matthew 10:14 word by word
καὶ ὃς ἂν μὴ δέξηται ὑμᾶς μηδὲ ἀκούσῃ τοὺς λόγους ὑμῶν, ἐξερχόμενοι ἔξω τῆς οἰκίας ἢ τῆς πόλεως ἐκείνης ἐκτινάξατε τὸν κονιορτὸν τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Andκαίkai · andG2532
- whosoeverὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
- ·ἐάνean · ifG1437
- shallδέχομαιdechomai · to receiveG1209
- notμήmē · notG3361
- youσύsu · youG4771
- norμηδέmēde · norG3366
- hearἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
- wordsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- wordsλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
- when ye depart outἐξέρχομαιexerchomai · to go outG1831
- ofοἰκίαoikia · homeG3614
- thatἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
- houseοἰκίαoikia · homeG3614
- orἤē · orG2228
- cityπόλιςpolis · cityG4172
- shake offἐκτινάσσωektinassō · to shake out/offG1621
- the dustκονιορτόςkoniortos · dustG2868
- ofπούςpous · footG4228
Cross-references for Matthew 10:14
- Matthew 10:40“The one who welcomes you welcomes me, and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.
- Matthew 18:5And whoever welcomes one child like this in my name welcomes me.
- Mark 6:11If any place does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
- Mark 9:37“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me does not welcome me, but him who sent me.”
- Luke 9:5If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
- Luke 10:10When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,
- John 13:20Truly I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives him who sent me.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
- Nehemiah 5:13I also shook the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake from his house and property everyone who doesn’t keep this promise. May he be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the Lord. Then the people did as they had promised.
- Acts 13:51But Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet against them and went to Iconium.
- Acts 18:6When they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
- Acts 20:26Therefore I declare to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you,
Commentaries on Matthew 10:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Shake off the dust of your feet - The Jews considered themselves defiled by the dust of a heathen country, when was represented by the prophets as a polluted laud, Amos 7:17, when compared with the land of Israel, which was considered as a holy land, Ezekiel 45:1; therefore, to shake the dust of any city of Israel from off one's clothes or feet was an emblematical action, signifying a renunciation of all farther connection with them, and placing them on a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 See also Mark 6:8-11, and Luke 9:3-5. In both these places the substance of this account is given, though not so particularly as in Matthew. The general subject is the instructions given to the apostles. Matthew 10:9 Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass - This prohibition of gold, silver, and brass is designed to prevent their providing money for their journey. Pieces of money of “small value” were made of brass. In your purses…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-15Verses 5-15 The Gentiles must not have the gospel brought them, till the Jews have refused it. This restraint on the apostles was only in their first mission. Wherever they went they must proclaim, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. They preached, to establish the faith; the kingdom, to animate the hope; of heaven, to inspire the love of heavenly things, and the contempt of earthly; which is at hand, that men may prepare for it without delay. Christ gave…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14Shake the dust off your feet: This act was like the actions of a prophet. It came from an Israelite custom: when crossing back into Israel, they would shake off the dust of Gentile lands to show rejection of ungodliness. For the disciples, the gesture meant rejecting those who opposed God’s work (see Acts 18:6). Speaking judgment on those who refuse the message was part of proclaiming the good news about God’s kingdom (see Matthew 11:20–24; 13:10–15…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. 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 (Mr 6:11; Lu 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…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Matthew 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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