Mark:6:8

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rwp @Mark:6:8 @{Save a staff only } (\ei m ˆ rabdon monon \). Every traveller and pilgrim carried his staff . Bruce thinks that Mark has here preserved the meaning of Jesus more clearly than strkjv @Matthew:10:10 | (nor staff ) and strkjv @Luke:9:3 | (neither staff ). This discrepancy has given trouble to commentators . Grotius suggests no second staff for Matthew and Luke . Swete considers that Matthew and Luke report "an early exaggeration of the sternness of the command ." "Without even a staff is the _ne plus ultra_ of austere simplicity , and self-denial . Men who carry out the spirit of these precepts will not labour in vain " (Bruce ).

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