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Matthew 10:14-16
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 10:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust from your feet[a] as you leave that house or town. 15 Amen, I say to you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah[b] on the day of judgment than for that town.
16 No Servant Is above His Master.[c]“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as cunning as serpents and yet as innocent as doves.
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- Matthew 10:14 Shake the dust from your feet: a symbolic act practiced by the Pharisees when they left an unclean Gentile area. Here it represents a solemn warning to those who reject God’s message.
- Matthew 10:15 Sodom and Gomorrah: see Gen 19:23-29.
- Matthew 10:16 The disciples are prolongations of Christ, so to speak. Whatever happened to him will also happen to them. But if they persevere they will be saved.
