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NASB | Luke 9:5 "And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 9:5 "And as for all those who do not welcome you, when you leave that city, shake the dust off your feet [breaking all ties with them] as a testimony against them [that they rejected My message]." |
Bible Question: Why is the word dust used as an example in the Old testament in Isaiah and then again by Jesus in New Testament in Luke 9:5? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Mary Davie... To the Jew even the dust from a cometary is unclean. The same was considered of the dust from the fields of the Gentiles. It was to be shaken off as soon as possible, thereby divesting oneself of even the slightest remnants of that which is unclean. John Gill writes, "So Paul and Barnabas did at Antioch in Pisidia [shake the dust off], when the Jews contradicted and blasphemed the Gospel preached by them, raised a persecution against them, and expelled them out of their coasts, Acts 13:51 which ceremony was ordered by Christ to be observed even to the cities of Judea, that should despise and reject the ministry of his apostles; and that either to show that they did not come to them with worldly views, with any design to amass riches and wealth to themselves, for they would not so much as carry away with them the dust on their feet, but it was purely with a view to their welfare, both spiritual and temporal; or to testify that they had been among them, and that that very dust they shook off their feet would rise up in judgment against them, and declare that the Gospel had been preached among them, and they had rejected it, which will be an aggravation of their condemnation; or rather to observe to them, that such was their wickedness, that even the dust of their country was infected thereby, and therefore they shook it off, as though it defiled them, as the dust of an Heathen country was thought by the Jews to do; so that by this action they signified that they would have nothing more to do with them, or say to them, and that they looked upon them as impure and unholy, as any Heathen city or country." In Him, Doc |
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