Luke 10:11

10:1-16 Christ sent the seventy disciples, two and two, that they might strengthen and encourage one another. The ministry of the gospel calls men to receive Christ as a Prince and a Saviour; and he will surely come in the power of his Spirit to all places whither he sends his faithful servants. But the doom of those who receive the grace of God in vain, will be very fearful Those who despise the faithful ministers of Christ, who think meanly of them, and look scornfully upon them, will be reckoned as despisers of God and Christ.

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 Matthew 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 Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11. notwithstanding be ye sure of this; they might assure themselves of this, and which will be an aggravation of their guilt, and increase their punishment another day: that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you; was at their very doors, since the ministers of it, of the Gospel dispensation, the harbingers of the Messiah, who were sent to publish his Gospel, to proclaim him as king, and de clare that his kingdom was at hand, had been with them, and they had despised them.

Luke 10:11 . Πλὴν τοῦτο γινώσκετε , ὅτι ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ ) The messengers at first said ἤγγικεν ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς , κ . τ . λ ., Luke 10:9 ; then to those who proved to be contumacious they used a more general mode of expression (omitting the words ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς ), ἤγγικεν , κ . τ . λ .: however many have supplied the omitted words even in Luke 10:11 .[93] [93] BDL bcd Vulg. omit ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς in Luke 10:11 . A, as Rec. Text, supports the words.—ED. and TRANSL. Luke 10:11

(11) Be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. —There is something very solemnly impressive in the fact that this is the message to be uttered alike to the believing and the unbelieving. Now, as of old, the prophets of the Lord had to utter their proclamation, whether men would hear or whether they would forbear ( Ezekiel 2:7 ).

Acts 13:51 . ἐκτιναξάμενοι , cf. Matthew 10:14 , Luke 10:11 , Mark 6:11 . The symbolic act would be understood by the Jews as an intimation that all further intercourse was at an end. There is no reason to see in the words a late addition by the author of Acts to the source; the disciples mentioned in Acts 13:52 need not have been Jews at all, but Gentiles, and in Acts 14:21 nothing is said of any intercourse except with those who were already disciples.— Ἰκόνιον , see on Acts 14:1 .

Verse 8. - Entered for went , A.V.; reasoning for disputing , A.V. ( διαλεγόμενος , as ver. 9 and Acts 17:2, 17 ; Acts 18:4, 19 , etc.); as to the things for the things , A.V. This last is a needless change, since πείθειν properly governs an accusative of the things persuaded or taught, and it is a right English use of "to persuade" to apply it to the thing inculcated. For the use of the phrase "the kingdom of God" as a compendious description of Christian doctrine, see Acts 1:3 ; Acts 8:12 ; Acts 20:25 ; Acts 28:23 . St. Luke uses the phrase very frequently ( Luke 6:20 ; Luke 8:10 ; Luke 9:27, 60, 62 ; Luke 10:11 ; Luke 11:20 ; Luke 13:20, 28 ; Luke 16:16 ; Luke 17:20 ; Luke 21:31 , etc.). Acts 19:8