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Matthew 6:30

Context
6:30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, 1  which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, 2  won’t he clothe you even more, 3  you people of little faith?

Matthew 25:43

Context
25:43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

1 tn Grk “grass of the field.”

2 tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

3 sn The phrase even more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.



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