Mark 6:11

American Standard Version (1901)

And whatsoever place shall not receive you, and they hear you not, as ye go forth thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony unto them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ὃσοι ἂν μὴ δέξωνταί ὑμᾶς, μηδὲ ἀκούσωσιν ὑμῶν, ἐκπορευόμενοι ἐκεῖθεν, ἐκτινάξατε τὸν χοῦν τὸν ὑποκάτω τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς. Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Ἀνεκτότερον ἔσται Σοδόμοις ἤ Γομόρροις ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως, ἤ τῇ πόλει ἐκείνη.

Transliteration

And whoever an not dexōntai you, nor akousōsin you, ekporeuomenoi from there, ektinaxate the choun the hypokatō of the podōn of you for martyrion to them. Amēn legō to you, More anektoteron estai for Sodomois or Gomorrois in hēmera kriseōs, than the polei that.

Grammar Details

• *an dexōntai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd plural with conditional particle - they might receive
• *akousōsin*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd plural - they might hear/listen to
• *ekporeuomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - going out/departing
• *ektinaxate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - shake off
• *choun*: accusative, masculine, singular - dust/soil/dirt
• *hypokatō*: adverb/preposition with genitive - underneath/beneath
• *podōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - feet
• *martyrion*: accusative, neuter, singular - testimony/witness
• *Amēn*: Hebrew transliteration - truly/verily
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I say/tell
• *anektoteron*: comparative adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - more tolerable/bearable
• *estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd singular - it will be
• *Sodomois*: dative, masculine, plural - for Sodom
• *Gomorrois*: dative, masculine, plural - for Gomorrah
• *hēmera*: dative, feminine, singular - day
• *kriseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of judgment
• *polei*: dative, feminine, singular - city/town

Word Meanings

• *dexōntai*: receive/welcome/accept
• *akousōsin*: hear/listen to/heed
• *ekporeuomenoi*: going out/departing/leaving
• *ektinaxate*: shake off/dust off/remove
• *choun*: dust/soil/dirt
• *martyrion*: testimony/witness/evidence against
• *anektoteron*: more tolerable/more bearable/easier
• *hēmera kriseōs*: day of judgment/judgment day

Referenced Verses

• Acts 18:6 : 6 And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. [
• Neh 5:13 : 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.
• Matt 10:14-15 : 14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet. 15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
• Luke 9:5 : 5 And as many as receive you not, when ye depart from that city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
• Luke 10:10-15 : 10 But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, 11 Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we wipe off against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh. 12 I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. 13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.
• Acts 13:50-51 : 50 But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders. 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
• John 15:22-24 : 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• Matt 11:20-24 : 20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
• Matt 12:36 : 36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
• Ezek 16:48-51 : 48 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good] . 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
• Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
• Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• 1 John 4:17 : 17 Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.
• Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.