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The quote is Mathew 10:1-42 from the KJ version. It doesn’t say Jesus will physically be there, it says as the Apostles have received him (Jesus), so the people should receive the Apostles.
It says that the Apostles are supposed to enquire who in it (the town) is worthy and they should go to that house.

Math 10:13-14 make it clear that if they don’t find the house and its inhabitants worthy, then the peace the Apostles let ‘come upon it whne they first entered’ should return back to the disciples and then they should shake the dust from their boots.

Now, Mathew 10:11 says that after Jesus is done instructing the Apostles, ‘...he departed to thence to teach and to preach in their cities. He uses the their form of there but he doesn’t mention who he is talking about. It is possible he is talking about his Disciples and the places they visit or he’s talking in general terms of all the places he will enter.

This is what I love about the Bible, it is written simply so us humans can attempt to understand it but it is not written at a second grade level or we would never get anything out of it. He also doesn’t write it at a PhD level either, can you imagine Genesis saying, God first created the top quark and then all the smaller elements (atoms) and then created molecules and DNA and continued on, no one would have understood it then or even now.
It’s not a hard book to read, (besides the fact that it points daggers at your heart in almost every chapter and if we didn’t have Jesus, we would be in a bad place).

I prefer the King James version as I like the way it’s written, what other version would have this quote about Lazarus lying in his tomb, “He Stinketh” too funny.

The quote is Mathew 10:1-42 from the KJ version. It doesn’t say Jesus will physically be there, it says as the Apostles have received him (Jesus), so the people should receive the Apostles.

I can not say that i disagree with you but I was not referring to Mat, i was using Luke 10.

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After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, where he himself would come.

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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

I believe that is the scripture the Jehovah’s use or at least the one pointed out to me.

It tells them not to go from house to house but they will point out that Paul went from house to house.

Paul obviously went from Church house to Church house.

At any rate i see the J.W s as Christians even though i do not agree with them on many things.