Connecting Statement:

Jesus sends his disciples out in sets of two to preach and to heal.

General Information:

The UDB uses a verse bridge to combine verses 8 and 9 in order to make Jesus' instructions clearer to read. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-versebridge)

Here the word "called" means that he summoned the twelve to come to him.

Here "bread" is a synecdoche for food in general. AT: "no food" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)

In that culture, men carried their money tucked into their belt. AT: "no money in their moneybags" or "no money"