Patristic
“(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Or else, Matthew and Luke neither allow shoes nor staff, which is meant to point out the highest perfection. But Mark bids them take a staff and be shod with sandals, which (1 Cor. 7:6) is spoken by permission.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 6:6-13
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗