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Luke 9:5
And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.
Luke 9:5 · Bible in Basic English
Luke 9:5 in other translations
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”
As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
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In context
2 And he sent them out to be preachers of the kingdom of God, and to make well those who were ill.
3 And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, no stick or bag or bread or money, and do not take two coats.
4 And if you go into a house, let that house be your resting-place till you go away.
5 And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.
6 And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.
7 Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;
8 And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.
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