The ravens (τους κορακας). Nowhere else in the N.T. The name includes the whole crow group of birds (rooks and jackdaws). Like the…

Consider the ravens.—See Notes on Matthew 6:26-27. Here, however, we have the more specific “ravens” instead of the wider…

For your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Co…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: Just as before, when raising our minds to spiritual boldness, He assured us with the example of the b…

The thrust of the comparison “how much more valuable?” is similar to the argument from the lesser to the greater in vv.6–7. There the sparrows repr…

Consider the ravens
According to the Jews ^F11 there are three sorts of ravens, the black raven, the raven of the va…

Christ strongly emphasized this caution not to give way to unsettling, perplexing worries (Matthew 6:25–34). The arguments used here ar…