Jesus instructs His disciples how to respond when a town receives them favorably and how to respond when a town receives them unfavorably.
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Biblical Text
4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city. 5 And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
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