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30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass,[a] which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven,[b] won’t he clothe you even more,[c] you people of little faith?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:30 tn Grk “grass of the field.”
  2. Matthew 6:30 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. Matthew 6:30 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.