‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’
We have here the sending forth of seventy disciples, two and two, into divers parts of the country, to preach the gospel, and to work miracles in those places which Christ himself designed to visit, to make way for his entertainment. This is not taken notice of by the other evangelists: but the instructions here given them are much the same with those given to the twelve. Observe, I.
Commenting on Luke 10:1-16
Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us,.... The Syriac version adds, "to our feet"; and so in Beza's most ancient copy, and the Arabic and Persic versions read, "which cleaves to our feet"; which agrees with Mat 10:14. we do wipe against you: for a testimony against them, that they had been with them, and were rejected by them; See Gill on Mat 10:14, Mar 6:11.
Verses 8-12. , . Verse 11. (m) "the very dust of your city" .