Luke 10:4
Don't take any money or a bag or extra sandals, and don't spend time chatting with people you meet.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
In Context
3So get on your way: I'm sending you like sheep among wolves.
5Whatever house you enter, first of all say, ‘May this house have peace.’
Cross References
Genesis 24:56“Please don't delay me,” he told them. “The Lord has made my journey successful, so let me leave and go back to my master.”
2 Kings 4:24She put the saddle on the donkey and told her servant, “Let's go quickly! Don't slow down for me unless I tell you to!”
Proverbs 4:25Focus on what's ahead of you; look at what's in front of you.
Mark 6:8He told them not to take anything with them except a walking stick—no bread, no bag, and no money in their belts.
Luke 9:59He told another man, “Follow me.” But the man replied, “Master, first let me go home and bury my father.”
Luke 22:35Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without money, without a bag, and without an extra pair of sandals, did you lack anything?” “No, nothing,” they replied.
Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17
The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →