Acts 13:51

New Living Translation

So they shook the dust from their feet as a sign of rejection and went to the town of Iconium.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet against them and went to Iconium.

King James Version (1611)
But they shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.

King James Version
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

English Standard Version
But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.

New American Standard Bible
But they shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

New Century Version
So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet and went to Iconium.

Amplified Bible
But they shook its dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they shook off the dust of their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Legacy Standard Bible
But having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, they went to Iconium.

Berean Standard Bible
So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Contemporary English Version
Paul and Barnabas shook the dust from that place off their feet and went on to the city of Iconium.

Complete Jewish Bible
However, Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba shook off the dust of their feet against them and went on to Iconium;

Darby Translation
But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet. Then they went to the city of Iconium.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But they shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.

George Lamsa Translation
And as they went out, they shook off the dust of their feet upon them, and they came to the city of I-co''ni-um.

Good News Translation
The apostles shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went on to Iconium.

Lexham English Bible
So after shaking off the dust from their feet against them, they went to Iconium.

Literal Translation
But these shaking off the dust of their feet on them, they came into Iconium.

American Standard Version
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

Bible in Basic English
But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium.

Hebrew Names Version
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

International Standard Version
So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.Matthew 10:14; Mark 6:11; Luke 9:5; Acts 18:6;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And as they went forth, they shook off against them the dust of their feet; and they came to Ikanon, a city.

Murdock Translation
And when they went out, they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to the city of Iconium.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But they shoke of the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.

English Revised Version
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

World English Bible
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

Weymouth's New Testament
But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them and came to Iconium;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schoken awei in to hem the duste of her feet, and camen to Yconye.

Update Bible Version
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

Webster's Bible Translation
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

New English Translation
So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

New King James Version
But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

New Life Bible
But Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off from their feet against them and went to the city of Iconium.

New Revised Standard
So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, and went to Iconium.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came into Iconium.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Revised Standard Version
But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and went to Ico'nium.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they shouke of ye duste of their fete agaynst them and came vnto Iconiu.

Young's Literal Translation
and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But they shoke of the dust of their fete agaynst them, and came to Iconium.

Mace New Testament (1729)
so they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their boots as a sign of rejection and loped off toward Iconium.

Contextual Overview

⁴² As Paul and Barnabas left the synagogue that day, the people begged them to speak about these things again the next week. ⁴³ Many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, and the two men urged them to continue to rely on the grace of God. ⁴⁴ The following week almost the entire city turned out to hear them preach the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ But when some of the Jews saw the crowds, they were jealous; so they slandered Paul and argued against whatever he said. ⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that we first preach the word of God to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we will offer it to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For the Lord gave us this command when he said, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.'" ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they were very glad and thanked the Lord for his message; and all who were chosen for eternal life became believers. ⁴⁹ So the Lord's message spread throughout that region. ⁵⁰ Then the Jews stirred up the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town. ⁵¹ So they shook the dust from their feet as a sign of rejection and went to the town of Iconium.

Bible Verse Review
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they: Acts 18:6, Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5

Iconium: Acts 14:1, Acts 14:19, Acts 14:21, Acts 16:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:26 - I pray you Nehemiah 5:13 - I shook my lap Matthew 10:23 - when Luke 10:10 - go Acts 15:36 - in every Acts 20:19 - by the Romans 15:19 - so that 2 Timothy 3:11 - at Antioch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them,.... As Christ directed his apostles to do; :-.

And came unto Iconium, a city in Lycaonia; here it is placed both by Ptolomy c and Strabo d; Pliny says e, that

"there was a tetrarchy granted out of Lycaonia, on that part which borders on Galatia, consisting of fourteen cities, the most celebrated city being Iconium.''

It was called by the Syrians היק ענא, "Ik-ona", which signifies "the bosom of sheep"; the country round about it being famous for feeding great numbers of sheep; and here afterwards was a church of Christ, a bosom for his sheep; it is now in the hands of the Turks, and is called "Conia", or "Cogne".

c Geograph. l. 5. c. 6. d Ib. l. 12. e Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But they shook off the dust ... - See the notes on Matthew 10:14.

And came unto Iconium - This was the capital of Lycaonia. It is now called Konieh, and is the capital of Caramania. “Konieh extends to the east and south over the plain far beyond the walls, which are about two miles in circumference ... Mountains covered with snow rise on every side, excepting toward the east, where a plain, as flat as the desert of Arabia, extends far beyond the reach of the eye” (Capt. Kinnear). “Little, if anything, remains of Greek or Roman Iconium, if we except the ancient inscriptions and the fragments of sculptures which are built into the Turkish walls.” “The city wall is said to have been erected by the Seljukian sultans: it seems to have been built from the ruins of more ancient buildings, as broken columns, capitals, pedestals, bas-reliefs, and other pieces of sculpture contribute toward its construction. It has 80 gates, of a square form, each known by a separate name, and, as well as most of the towers, embellished with Arabic inscriptions ... I observed a few Greek characters on the walls, but they were in so elevated a situation that I could not decipher them” (Capt. Kinneir). See Colonel Leake’s description; and also the work of Col. Chesney (1850) on the Euphrates Expedition, vol. i, p. 348, 349.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:51. They shook off the dust of their feet against them — This was a very significant rite; by it, they in effect said: Ye are worse than the heathen: even your very land is accursed for your opposition to God, and we dare not permit even its dust to cleave to the soles of our feet; and we shake it off, in departing from your country, according to our Lord's command, (Matthew 10:14,) for a testimony against you, that we offered you salvation, but ye rejected it and persecuted us. The Jews, when travelling in heathen countries, took care, when they came to the borders of their own, to shake off the dust of their feet, lest any of the unhallowed ground should defile the sacred land of Israel.

Came unto Iconium. — According to Strabo, Iconium was a small fortified town, the capital of Lycaonia, at present called Cogni. "Lycaonia was a province at the back of Pamphylia, higher up in Asia Minor, and to the northeast of Pamphylia." Pearce.