Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 12:26

"If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?" — Luke 12:26 (ASV)

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least.—The words are peculiar to St. Luke’s report. If no amount of anxious care can add one cubit to our stature or the measure of our days (see Notes on Matthew 6:27), how much less can we control all the myriad contingencies upon which the happiness of the future may depend!