Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 10:14
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.The Jewish rabbis taught that the dust of heathen cities defiled, and the symbolical action of shaking off the dust of the feet indicated that any person or city rejecting the apostles' words was no better than the heathen. Paul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, were rejected by the Jews and certain women of honorable estate, "But they shook off... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 10:15
Verily, &c. See note on Matthew 6:18 . the day of judgment. Which the Lord spoke of as imminent, and coming at the end of that dispensation, had the nation repented. read more