And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
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Gill's Exposition
And in the same house remain,.... Where the sons of peace are, and the peace rests, and into which you are invited, and kindly received and used:
eating and drinking such things as they give; or…
Barnes' Notes
See the notes at Mat 10:11. On this passage Dr. Thomson (“The Land and the Book,” vol. i. p. 534) remarks: “The reason (for the command, ‘Go not from house to house’) is very obvious to one acquainted…
Adam Clarke
The laborer is worthy - See on Mat 10:8, Mat 10:12 (note).
Go not from house to house - See on Mat 10:11 (note). It would be a great offense among the Hindoos if a guest, after being made welcome at a…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
eating and drinking such things as they give As a plain right. 1Co 9:4; 1Co 9:7-11.
the labourer is worthy of his hire Referred to by St Paul, 1Ti 5:18. Doubtless he may have been aware that our Lord…
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