And door to door missionaries are a pain in the ass. The disciples did not go door to door. They entered a town and went to the square. Then, they were or were not "invited" into homes. They did not walk into a private plot of land un announced.
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while I did not hold back from telling YOU any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching YOU publicly and from house to house. ACTS 20;20
Or, “and in private houses.” Lit., “and according to houses.” Gr., kai kat’ oi′kous. Here ka·ta′ is used with the accusative pl. in the distributive sense.
And every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.Acts 5;42
Lit., “according to house.” Gr., kat’ oi′kon. Here ka·ta′ is used with the accusative sing. in the distributive sense. R. C. H. Lenski, in his work The Interpretation of The Acts of the Apostles, Minneapolis (1961), made the following comment on Ac 5:42: “Never for a moment did the apostles cease their blessed work. ‘Every day’ they continued, and this openly ‘in the Temple’ where the Sanhedrin and the Temple police could see and hear them, and, of course, also κατ’ οἴκον, which is distributive, ‘from house to house,’ and not merely adverbial, ‘at home.’ ”
