Matthew 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?

Ps 90:5,6; Ps 92:7; Isa 40:6-8; Mt 8:26; Mt 14:31; Mt 16:8; Mt 17:17; Mr 4:40; Mr 9:19; Lu 9:41; Lu 12:28; Joh 20:27; Heb 3:12; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24

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.