Matthew 10:15

"Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet."

Key Reflection

This verse symbolizes rejection and the need to move on, teaching that if a community does not welcome the message or presence of the disciples, they should leave without leaving any trace behind, as if cleansing themselves from the dirt of their rejection—a metaphor for spiritual purification and setting boundaries in ministry.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 15. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom, etc. The cities here mentioned, together with Admah and Zeboim, were destroyed by fire and brimstone, or by a volcanic eruption, on account of their great wickedness. They occupied the place afterwards covered by the Dead Sea, bounding Palestine on the south-east, Ge 19:24,25. Christ said that their punishment will be more tolerable--that is, more easily borne--than that of the people who reject his gospel, The reason is, that they were not favoured with so much light and instruction. See Mt 11:23,24; Lu 12:47,48.

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