Charles Ellicott 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)

And in the same house remain.—See Note on Matthew 10:11.

The labourer is worthy of his hire.—See Note on Matthew 10:10. The exact reproduction of the words by Saint Paul in 1 Timothy 5:18, as a citation from “the Scripture,” is interesting in every way. The Apostle could hardly have failed to become acquainted, during his long companionship with Saint Luke, with the materials which the Evangelist was collecting for his great work. Accordingly, we can hardly doubt that he quotes this as one of the sayings of the Lord Jesus, as he quotes another in Acts 20:35, and clothes it with the same authority as the older Scripture. On this assumption, the Gospel of Saint Luke must have been, in part at least, written and recognized at the time when the Pastoral Epistles were written.