Reference: Purse
Easton
(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Lu 10:4; 22:35-36).
(2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8), a money-belt. As to our Lord's sending forth his disciples without money in their purses, the remark has been made that in this "there was no departure from the simple manners of the country. At this day the farmer sets out on excursions quite as extensive without a para in his purse; and a modern Moslem prophet of Tarshisha thus sends forth his apostles over this identical region. No traveller in the East would hestitate to throw himself on the hospitality of any village." Thomson's Land and the Book. (See Scrip.)
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Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.
They were instructed to take nothing for their journey, with the exception of a walking staff.
Carry no purse, no wallet, and no shoes; and greet no man on the way.
Speaking to them he asked: When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything? They said: Nothing. Now he said: Take your purse and wallet. If you do not have a sword sell your cloak and buy one.
Fausets
Often "the girdle" (zoonee): Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8. Or "a bag for money", and "for merchants' weights". (Ge 42:35; Pr 1:14; Isa 46:6; Joh 12:6, glossokomon, literally, a bag for carrying mouthpieces of musical instruments.)
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As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened.
Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.
They were instructed to take nothing for their journey, with the exception of a walking staff.
He did not say this because he cared for the poor. He was a thief. He had the moneybox and took away what was put in it.
Hastings
Morish
A bag for money or weights. Pr 1:14; Isa 46:6; Lu 10:4; 22:35-36; Joh 12:6. In Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8, the 'girdle' is alluded to, a portion of which was used as a purse.
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Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.
They were instructed to take nothing for their journey, with the exception of a walking staff.
Carry no purse, no wallet, and no shoes; and greet no man on the way.
Speaking to them he asked: When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything? They said: Nothing. Now he said: Take your purse and wallet. If you do not have a sword sell your cloak and buy one.
He did not say this because he cared for the poor. He was a thief. He had the moneybox and took away what was put in it.
Smith
Purse,
a bag for money. The Hebrews, when on a journey, were provided with a bag, in which they carried their money,
Ge 42:35; Pr 1:14; 7:20; Isa 46:6
and, if they were merchants, also their weights.
De 25:13; Mic 6:11
This bag is described in the New Testament by the terms balantion (bag)
Lu 10:4; 12:33; 22:35,38
and glossokomon (originally the bag in which musicians carried the mouth-pieces of their Instruments).
Joh 12:6; 13:29
The girdle also served as a purse.
Ladies wore ornamental purses.
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As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
He took a bag of money with him. He will come home at the appointed day.
Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.
They were instructed to take nothing for their journey, with the exception of a walking staff.
Carry no purse, no wallet, and no shoes; and greet no man on the way.
Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.
Speaking to them he asked: When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything? They said: Nothing.
They said: Lord, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.
He did not say this because he cared for the poor. He was a thief. He had the moneybox and took away what was put in it.
Some thought Judas was going to shop for food for the feast or give something to the poor. Judas was in charge of the moneybox.