Albert Barnes Commentary Luke 10:7

"And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house." — Luke 10:7 (ASV)

See Barnes on Matthew 10:11.

On this passage Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. 1, 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 neighbors, one after another, must invite him to eat with them. There is a strict etiquette about it, involving much ostentation and hypocrisy. A failure in the due observance of this system of hospitality is violently resented and often leads to alienations and feuds among neighbors; it also consumes much time, causes unusual distraction of mind, leads to levity, and in every way counteracts the success of a spiritual mission."

The labourer is (1 Corinthians 9:4–14; 1 Timothy 5:18); Go not from house (1 Timothy 5:13).