è·¯åŠ ç¦éŸ³ 10:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

不要帶錢囊，不要帶口袋，不要帶鞋，不要在路上問候人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 要 带 钱 囊 ， 不 要 带 口 袋 ， 不 要 带 鞋 ； 在 路 上 也 不 要 问 人 的 安 。

Contextual Overview

¹ After this, the Lord chose seventy-two others and sent them out in pairs ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go. ² He said to them, "There are a great many people to harvest, but there are only a few workers. So pray to God, who owns the harvest, that he will send more workers to help gather his harvest. ³ Go now, but listen! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. ⁴ Don't carry a purse, a bag, or sandals, and don't waste time talking with people on the road. ⁵ Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this house.' ⁶ If peace-loving people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you. ⁷ Stay in the same house, eating and drinking what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don't move from house to house. ⁸ If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you. ⁹ Heal the sick who live there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.' ¹⁰ But if you go into a town, and the people don't welcome you, then go into the streets and say,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

neither: Luke 9:3-6, Luke 22:35, Matthew 10:9, Matthew 10:10, Mark 6:8, Mark 6:9

and: Luke 9:59, Luke 9:60, Genesis 24:33, Genesis 24:56, 1 Samuel 21:8, 2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:29, Proverbs 4:25

Reciprocal: Judges 18:15 - saluted him Matthew 5:47 - salute Mark 16:8 - neither John 20:17 - Touch

Cross-References

Numbers 24:24
Ships will sail from the shores of Cyprus and defeat Assyria and Eber, but they will also be destroyed."

Isaiah 23:1
This is a message about Tyre: You trading ships, cry! The houses and harbor of Tyre are destroyed. This news came to the ships from the land of Cyprus.

Isaiah 23:12
He said, "Sidon, you will not rejoice any longer, because you are destroyed. Even if you cross the sea to Cyprus, you will not find a place to rest."

Ezekiel 27:12
"‘People of Tarshish became traders for you because of your great wealth. They traded your goods for silver, iron, tin, and lead.

Ezekiel 27:25
"‘Trading ships carried the things you sold. You were like a ship full of heavy cargo in the middle of the sea.

Daniel 11:30
Ships from the west will come and fight against the king of the North, so he will be afraid. Then he will return and show his anger against the holy agreement. He will be good to those who have stopped obeying the holy agreement.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Carry neither purse,.... The Syriac version reads, "purses, "to put money, gold, silver, and brass in; and the prohibition regards the money in the purse chiefly:

nor scrip; the Syriac version here also reads in the plural number, "scrips", to put victuals in, provisions or any sort for their journey, which they were not to carry with them, any more than money, to buy food with

Nor shoes; any more than those they had upon their feet;

:- :- and salute no man by the way; that they might not be retarded, and hindered in their journey by tedious ceremonies, and long inquiries into the health of persons and friends, and the business they were going about, and places where; and by discourses and confabulations, drawn out to great length, as was often the case at meeting on the road: and, for the same reason, a like charge is given to Gehazi, 2 Kings 4:29, and which, as the Jewish commentators on the place observe a, was, that he might not multiply words with persons he met with, and might not be stopped by the way; and that his intention might be in his work, and his mind might not turn to any other thing, either by word or deed. So our Lord's intention, by this order was, not to teach them incivility, or to be morose and uncourteous; but that they might dispatch their business with the utmost expedition, and rather forego some common civilities and ceremonies, than to neglect, or, in the least, to hinder a work of so much importance they were sent about: and this was the more necessary, since, according to the Jewish maxim b,

"prevent every man with a salutation;''

they saluted all that they met, which took up time, and hindered business. Some sorts of persons indeed were excused, as those who were mourners c for the dead, and such as kept fasts for rain d: but such were not these disciples; they neither mourned, nor fasted, nor could they, so long as the bridegroom was with them.

a Jarchi, Kimchi, & R. Levi Ben Gersom in 2 Kings iv. 29. b Pirke Abot. c. 4. sect. 15. c T. Bab. in Misn. Moed Katon, c. 3. sect. 6. d Misn. Taanith, c. 1. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Purse ...scrip ...shoes - See the notes at Matthew 10:10.

Salute no man by the way - Salutations among the Orientals did not consist, as among us, of a slight bow or an extension of the hand, but was performed by many embraces and inclinations, and even prostrations of the body on the ground. All this required much “time;” and as the business on which the seventy were sent was urgent, they were required not to “delay” their journey by long and formal salutations of the persons whom they met. “If two Arabs of equal rank meet each other, they extend to each other the right hand, and having clasped, they elevate them as if to kiss them. Each one then draws back his hand and kisses it instead of his friend’s, and then places it upon his forehead. The parties then continue the salutation by kissing each other’s beard. They gave thanks to God that they are once more permitted to see their friend - they pray to the Almighty in his behalf. Sometimes they repeat not less than ten times the ceremony of grasping hands and kissing.”

It may also be added, in the language of Dr. Thomson (“The Land and the Book,” vol. i. p. 534), that “there is such an amount of insincerity, flattery, and falsehood in the terms of salutation prescribed by etiquette, that our Lord, who is truth itself, desired his representatives to dispense with them as far as possible, perhaps tacitly to rebuke them. These ‘instructions’ were also intended to reprove another propensity which an Oriental can scarcely resist, no matter how urgent his business. If he meets an acquaintance, he must stop and make an endless number of inquiries and answer as many. If they come upon people making a bargain or discussing any other matter, they must pause and intrude their own ideas, and enter keenly into the business, though it in no wise concerns them; and more especially, an Oriental can never resist the temptation to assist “where accounts are being settled or money counted out.” The clink of coin has a positive fascination to them. Now the command of our Saviour strictly forbade all such loiterings. They would waste time, distract attention, and in many ways hinder the prompt and faithful discharge of their important mission.” The salutation of friends, therefore, was a ceremony which consumed much time; and it was on this account that our Lord on this occasion forbade them to delay their journey to greet others. A similar direction is found in 2 Kings 4:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 10:4. Carry neither purse nor scrip — Matthew 10:9, c., and Mark 6:8; Mark 6:8, &c.

Salute no man by the way. — According to a canon of the Jews, a man who was about any sacred work was exempted from all civil obligations for the time forasmuch as obedience to God was of infinitely greater consequence than the cultivation of private friendships, or the returning of civil compliments.