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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Mark 6:8

Mark 6:8. Save a staff only, i.e., if, as was usual, each had a staff for walking, let him take it, but not provide one especially. This explanation, which is strictly grammatical, removes the apparent difference between the command as recorded here and by Matthew and Luke. Our Lord did not prescribe minutely what each should wear and carry, as monkish rules do. The point is: make no special preparation, take no special care: ‘for the workman is worthy of his food' (Matthew), a thought involved in the words: no bread, which Matthew omits.

No wallet. A leathern pouch. The correct order is as here indicated.

No money in their purse, lit., ‘not brass into the girdle.'

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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