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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And commanded them that they should take nothing for [their] journey,.... To accommodate them in it, except those things after directed to: save a staff only; a single one, for staves in the plural number are forbidden, [See comments on Matthew 10:10]; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse. Travellers used to put their bread, or any other sort of food into their scrips, and their money in...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...