Do not take a purse with you, or a bag, or sandals; and do not stop to greet any one on your journey.

He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey- -not even bread, or a bag, or pence in their purse;

Then he said to them all: "When I sent you out as my Messengers, without either purse, or bag, or sandals, were you in need of anything?" "No; nothing," they answered.

"Now, however," he said, "he who has a purse must take it and his bag as well; and he who has not must sell his cloak and buy a sword.

Not even with a bag for the journey, or a change of clothes, or sandals, or even a staff; for the worker is worth his food.

"Do not," he said to them, "take anything for your journey; not even a staff, or a bag, or bread, or any silver, or a change of clothes with you.