Neither gold, nor silver. — “Silver” alone is named in St. Luke; brass — i.e., bronze or copper coinage — in St. Mark. St. Matthew’s report includes all the three forms of the money then in circulation. The tense of the word rendered “provide” requires notice. It implies that if they had money, they might take it, but they were not to “get” or “provide” it as a condition of their journey, still less to delay till they had got it.
In your purses. — Literally, in your girdles — the twisted folds of which were, and are, habitually used in the East instead of the “purse” of the West.