⁸ “If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you.

²⁷ If someone who isn’t a believer asks you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you want to. Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience.

⁴⁰ “Anyone who receives you receives me, and anyone who receives me receives the Father who sent me.

²⁰ I tell you the truth, anyone who welcomes my messenger is welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming the Father who sent me.”

¹⁰ But if a town refuses to welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

⁴⁸ Then he said to them, “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf^[a] welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me also welcomes my Father who sent me. Whoever is the least among you is the greatest.”