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Mark 6:11

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6:11 If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off 1  your feet as a testimony against them.”

Mark 9:37

Context
9:37 “Whoever welcomes 2  one of these little children 3  in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

1 sn To shake the dust off represented shaking off the uncleanness from one’s feet; see Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 18:6. It was a sign of rejection.

2 tn This verb, δέχομαι (decomai), is a term of hospitality (L&N 34.53).

3 sn Children were very insignificant in ancient culture, so this child would be the perfect object lesson to counter the disciples’ selfish ambitions.



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