Albert Barnes on Luke 10:7

Mt 10:11. On this passage Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p. 534) remarks: "The reason [for the command, 'Go not from house to house'] is very obvious to one acquainted with Oriental customs. When a stranger arrives in a village or an encampment, the neighbours, one after another, must invite him to eat with them. There is a strict etiquette about it, involving much ostentation and hypocrisy, and a failure in the due observance of this system of hospitality is violently resented, and often leads to alienations and feuds among neighbours; it also consumes much time, causes unusual distraction of mind, leads to levity, and every way counteracts the success of a spiritual mission." (h) "the labourer is" 1Cor 9:4-14, 1Timm 5:18 (i) "Go not from house" 1Timm 5:13