Lord, behold, here are two swords.— Our Lord's disciples, mistaking his meaning about the swords, replied, they had two: the reason why they had any at all, probably, was, that they might defend themselves against robbers in their journey from Galilee and Perea, and from the beasts of prey which in those parts were very frequent and dangerous in the night time: it afterwards appears, that one of these swords was Peter's. See John 18:10. Our Lord replies to the disciples, "It is enough for weapons of this sort; my chief intent is, to direct you to another kind of defence; even that which arises from piety and faith." This is strongly intimated by our Lord's saying that two swordswere sufficient; which, it is evident, they could not have been for so many men, had our Lord meant what he said in a literal sense.
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Luke 22:38
38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them,It is enough.