Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
`Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,
Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass, for your belts,
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Luke 22:35Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.
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Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices5
For if they preach without receiving reward for it, the possession of gold and silver and wealth was unnecessary. For had they had such, they would have been thought to be preaching, not for the sake of men's salvation, but their own gain. As He had cut off riches, which are meant by gold and silver, He now almost cuts off necessaries of life; that the Apostles, teachers of the true religion, who taught men that all things are directed by God's providence, might show themselves to be without thought for the morrow.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420patristic
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
See also Mar 6:8-11, and Luk 9:3-5. In both these places the substance of this account is given, though not so particularly as in Matthew. The general subject is the instructions given to the apostles. Mat 10:9 Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass - This prohibition of gold, silver, and brass is designed to prevent their providing money for their journey. Pieces of money of small value were made of brass. In your purses - Literally, in your girdles (belts). See the notes at Mat 5:38-41. A girdle or sash was an indispensable part of the dress.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
Doubtless he will not be wanting to those that are working for him. Those whom he employs, as they are taken under special protection, so they are entitled to special provisions. Christ's hired servants shall have bread enough and to spare; while we abide faithful to God and our duty, and are in care to do our work well, we may cast all our other care upon God;
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Concerning the sufferings they were to undergo. They are told what they should suffer, and from whom; counsels are given them what course to take when persecuted, and encouragements to bear up cheerfully under their sufferings,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches8
Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.
He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—
But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
Then Jesus called the Twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’
