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The Futility of Worry
Commentators explain that Jesus uses this question to show the complete uselessness of anxiety. Worrying cannot accomplish even a small thing, so it is futile to be anxious about the larger concerns of life. The argument is from the lesser to the greater: if we cannot control something as minor as our height or the exact length of our life, we should entrust the bigger things to God.
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AT Robertson
On Luke 12:25
A cubit (πηχυν). Matthew 6:27 has πηχυν ενα (one cubit, though ενα is sometimes merely the indefinite article.
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Charles Ellicott
On Luke 12:24–25
19th Century
Bishop
Consider the ravens.—See Notes on Matthew 6:26-27. Here, however, we have the more specific “ravens” instead of the wider…
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 12:25–26
19th Century
Preacher
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thou…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 12:25
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…
John Gill
On Luke 12:25
17th Century
Pastor
And which of you with taking thought
In an anxious and distressing manner, for food and raiment, in order to preserv…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 12:22–40
17th Century
Minister
Christ strongly emphasized this caution not to give way to unsettling, perplexing worries (Matthew 6:25���34). The arguments used here …