Acts 18:6

“And when they opposed themselves, etc.] To the truth, and contradicted themselves in many instances, and their own prophecies; or those books which they themselves allowed to be the oracles of God, and blasphemed both Christ, and the apostle, and the doctrine which he taught; and railed at him, and spoke evil of him, and used him in a very contumelious and reproachful manner, as they were used from contradicting to go to blaspheming; (see <441345>Acts 13:45) he shook his raiment; his outer garment, and the dust off from it, as a testimony against them; (see <401014>Matthew 10:14, <441351>Acts 13:51) and said unto them, your blood be upon your heads; meaning, that they were the authors of…”

“Your blood be upon your own heads, &c.--See Eze 33:4, Eze 33:9. from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles--Compare Act 13:46.”

“And when they opposed themselves - To him and his message. And blasphemed - See the notes on Acts 13:45. He shook his raiment - As an expressive act of shaking off the guilt of their condemnation. Compare Acts 13:45. He shook his raiment to show that he was resolved henceforward to have nothing to do with them; perhaps, also, to express the fact that God would soon slake them off, or reject them (Doddridge). Your blood ... - The guilt of your destruction is your own. You only are the cause of the destruction that is coming upon you. See the notes on Matthew 27:25. I am clean - I am not to blame for your destruction. I have done my duty. The gospel had been fairly offered and deliberately…”

“He shook his raiment - To signify he would from that time refrain from them: and to intimate, that God would soon shake them off as unworthy to be numbered among his people. I am pure - None can say this but he that has borne a full testimony against sin. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles - But not to them altogether. He did not break off all intercourse with the Jews even at Corinth. Only he preached no more in their synagogue. Acts 18:7”

“they: Act 13:45, Act 19:9, Act 26:11; Luk 22:65; Th1 2:14-16; Ti2 2:25; Jam 2:6, Jam 2:7; Pe1 4:4, Pe1 4:14 he shook: Act 13:51; Neh 5:13; Mat 10:14; Luk 9:5, Luk 10:10, Luk 10:11 Your: Act 20:26, Act 20:27; Lev 20:9, Lev 20:11, Lev 20:12; Sa2 1:16; Eze 3:18, Eze 3:19, Eze 18:13, Eze 33:4, Eze 33:8, Eze 33:9; Ti1 5:22 from: Act 13:46, Act 13:47, Act 19:9, Act 19:10, Act 26:20, Act 28:28; Mat 8:11, Mat 21:43, Mat 22:10; Rom 3:29; Rom 9:25, Rom 9:26, Rom 9:30-33, Rom 10:12, Rom 10:13, Rom 11:11-15 Acts 18:7”