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Consider the ravens: they don`t sow, they don`t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
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God Cares for the 'Unworthy'
Commentators highlight the significance of Jesus choosing the raven. According to Jewish law, ravens were considered unclean and undesirable birds. The argument is from the lesser to the greater: if God meticulously provides for a creature deemed unworthy and of little value, how much more certain can you be that He will care for you, whom He values infinitely more?
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The ravens (τους κορακας). Nowhere else in the N.T. The name includes the whole crow group of birds (rooks and jackdaws). Like the…
19th Century
Anglican
Consider the ravens.—See Notes on Matthew 6:26-27. Here, however, we have the more specific “ravens” instead of the wider…
Baptist
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better t…
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Consider the ravens According to the Jews F11 there are three sorts of ravens, the black raven, the raven of the va…
Presbyterian
Christ strongly emphasized this caution not to give way to unsettling, perplexing worries (Matthew 6:25—34). The arguments used here ar…
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