Luke Chapter 10 verse 8 Holy Bible
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
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And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:
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And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you,
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And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
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Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
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and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Eat such things as are set before you. Most commentators have simply seen in this charge (1) an instruction to be content with whatever their host should set before them, avoiding even the appearance of caring or wishing for dainties; (2) that his servants should look upon such maintenance in the light of a fairly earned wage, rather than as an alms bestowed upon a beggar. In other words, his servants, while perfectly content with the most frugal fare, at the same time should preserve their manly independence. The bare austere sustenance, the simple lodging, - these things they had surely earned. But in addition to this meaning, true and appropriate though it be, there seems a quiet recommendation not to be rigid in inquiring as to the cleanness or uncleanness of the viands. One very able commentator (Godet) remarks that of this there is no question, for we are yet in a Jewish world. But remembering only in the last chapter a mission was specially sent to a Samaritan village, such an assertion can scarcely be maintained. It seems probable that extreme rigidness in this particular, now that mission work on a broad scale had commenced, here began to be relaxed; and that in this charge of Jesus we have, at least, the basis of that yet broader commandment set out by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:27.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Eat such things as are set before you.--The precise form of the precept is peculiar to St. Luke, but the spirit is the same as that of the words which had been spoken to the Twelve. The Evangelist preachers were to accept whatever was provided for them by a willing host, and to avoid even the appearance of caring for outward comforts.