Matthew 10:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς ἣν δʼ ἂν πόλιν ἢ κώμην εἰσέλθητε, ἐξετάσατε τίς ἐν αὐτῇ ἄξιός ἐστιν· κἀκεῖ μείνατε ἕως ἂν ἐξέλθητε.

Transliteration

Into whatever d' an polin or kōmēn eiselthēte, exetasate who in it axios estin; and-there meinate until an exelthēte.

Grammar Details

• *d'*: elided form of *de* - but/and
• *an*: conditional particle - ever/would
• *polin*: accusative feminine singular - city
• *kōmēn*: accusative feminine singular - village
• *eiselthēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd plural - you might enter
• *exetasate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - inquire/search out
• *axios*: nominative masculine singular - worthy
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *meinate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - remain/stay
• *exelthēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd plural - you might go out/depart

Word Meanings

• *polin*: city/town
• *kōmēn*: village/small town
• *eiselthēte*: you might enter/go into
• *exetasate*: inquire/search out/investigate
• *axios*: worthy/deserving/suitable
• *meinate*: remain/stay/abide
• *exelthēte*: you might go out/depart/leave

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.” 10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her,“Please give me a little water in a cup, so I can take a drink.” 11 As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.” 12 She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” 13 Elijah said to her,“Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make me a small cake and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the LORD makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’” 15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. 16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah. 17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe. 18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?” 19 He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed. 20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?” 21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.” 22 The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived. 23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“See, your son is alive!” 24 The woman said to Elijah,“Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD’s message really does come through you.”
• Job 31:32 : 32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler–
• Gen 19:1-3 : 1 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground. 2 He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.” 3 But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.
• Acts 16:15 : 15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.
• Acts 18:1-3 : 1 Paul at Corinth After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them, 3 and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them(for they were tentmakers by trade).
• 3 John 1:7-8 : 7 For they have gone forth on behalf of“The Name,” accepting nothing from the pagans. 8 Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.
• Judg 19:16-21 : 16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) 17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said,“Where are you heading? Where do you come from?” 18 The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home. 19 We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.” 20 The old man said,“Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.” 21 So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal.
• Mark 6:10 : 10 He said to them,“Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.
• Luke 9:4 : 4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave the area.
• Luke 10:7-8 : 7 Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.
• Luke 10:38-42 : 38 Jesus and Martha Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said,“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her,“Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
• Luke 19:7 : 7 And when the people saw it, they all complained,“He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”