Matthew 10:10 is the tenth verse in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is: μὴ πήραν εἰς ὁδόν, μηδὲ δύο χιτῶνας, μηδὲ ὑποδήματα, μηδὲ ῥάβδον, ἄξιος γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης τῆς τροφῆς αὐτοῦ ἐστιν. In the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) the text reads: Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. The New International Version translates the passage as: take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff; for the worker is worth his keep. Parallel passages can be found in Mark 6:8–9 and Luke 9:3. Analysis The word for "bag" (KJV: "scrip") is "tarmil" in Hebrew, as found in one Jewish commentary, to call "a large leather bag", in which shepherds and travelers carried their food, and other things, hanging it around their necks. The disciples were told to carry neither money with them, nor any provisions for their journey. The Jerusalem Bible calls it a "haversack", while the Good News Translation speaks of a "beggar's bag". "Two tunics" (KJV: "two coats", NABRE: "a second tunic") are supposedly one to wear during travel, and another to put on, when they came to their quarters. Theologian John Gill suggests that "the disciples were not allowed change of raiment, either because superfluous, or too magnificent to appear in, or too troublesome to carry". In the Gospel of Mark only sandals are allowed. There seems to be a difference between "shoes" and "sandals", such as in the case of "plucking off the shoe", when a man refused his brother's wife. Sandals were made of harder leather than shoes, and sometimes of wood covered with leather, and stuck with nails, to make them more durable; though sometimes made of bulrushes, and bark of palm trees, and of cork, which were light to walk with. It is not certain which sort the disciples were allowed to travel with. "Staffs" (KJV: "staves") denote "more than one staff", which was sufficient to assist and lean upon during the journey. According to Mark, one staff was allowed, as though they might take a traveling staff, but not staffs for defense or to fight with (Matthew 26). Several things were not to carry, partly because they would be burdensome to them