Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Matthew 6:32

"For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things." — Matthew 6:32 (ASV)

In the light of God’s bountiful care, the questions posed in v.31 are unanswerable. Worse, they are essentially pagan. Jesus’ disciples must live lives qualitatively different from those of people who have no trust in God’s fatherly care and no fundamental goals beyond material things.