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MARK 6:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.”
Wear sandals but not an extra shirt — the sandals are permitted (unlike Matthew's sandals prohibition, creating a minor textual tension resolved by different mission stages) but no extra shirt. The single shirt communicates the disciples' dependence on hospitality for provisions including clothing. They travel with exactly what they need and nothing more — no reserve, no backup, no buffer. The kingdom's emissaries are not self-sufficient travelers but guests of the communities they enter.

Church Fathers on Mark 6:9

The Lord not only preached in the cities, but also in villages, that we may learn not to despise little things, nor always to seek for great cities, but to sow the word of the Lord in abandoned and lowly villages.

Theophylact · 11th century

Now our kind and merciful Lord and Master did not grudge His servants and their disciples His own virtues, and as He Himself had healed every sickness and every infirmity, so also He gave the same power to His disciples.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 2, 24

Or else; according to Matthew, the Lord immediately subjoined, 'The workman is worthy of his meat,' [Matt 10:19] which sufficiently proves why He forbade their carrying or possessing such things; not because they were not necessary, but because He sent them in such a way as to shew, that they were due to them from the faithful, to whom they preached the Gospel.

Augustine · 4th century · de Con. Evan., 2, 30
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