Luke10:8 Whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you.
When I read these verses I first did not understand, why the disciples who were sent out by Jesus should not go from house to house to collect their food. But Jesus commands them to remain in the same house and also to eat and drink, what this house gives them.
If we compare remaining in one house and going from house to house we will see, that actually going from house to house is better than just remaining in one house:
- By going from house to house collecting food the disciples always will have enough to eat (every family only has to give a little bit of what they have and the disciples would already have a lot to eat) and I also think they can also choose from what they have (they can eat the things they like...)
- If every family in a city only has to give a bit of what they have their burden is very light. But if only one family has to provide the two disciples, then the burden of this family is very heavy.
When Jesus was tempted by Satan, Jesus answered to the first temptation:
Luke4:4‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’
So the reason why Jesus commanded his disciples not to go from house to house was that he wanted to make them know on what they should pay attention or what is important: It is not the food, but the word of God they should concentrate on. So it was not important, if they received what they liked or not, but they shall live by the every word of God.
Jesus wanted to train them to "suffer" (haha.. i mean: they do not really suffer but they maybe have to eat less or what they dont like) and he wanted them to know, that ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’
Another reason might be, that Jesus also wanted to see, whether the families were willing to give so much (food and care) for the disciples of Jesus. Because for receiving peace they also have to be willing to give food...
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I'm also curious about this verse. What I think of are 2 reasons:
1)Jesus doesn't want to make people who receive disciples compare or compete with each other. If disciples changed their lodging, people might suppose that if the previous one feed them bad or give them bad rooms, or if my services are better.
2) Following the 1st reason, Jesus instead expect people pay attention on what disciples preach and teach, but not on the receiving things like Martha.
I also thought about this verse but I could not find any good answer.
But now I think with these shares are pretty helpful.
Another maybe similar thing is that Jesus wants them to settle down in one place. The expression going from one house to another reminds of people begging for food (monks?) and having not sufficient. And of coarse eat what you get do not be picky when people offer something you need.
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