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What does Luke 9:5 mean?
"As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”"
— Luke 9:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each.
Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.
As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.
Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,
and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
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