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Commentaries on Matthew 6:26

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Behold the fowls of the air,.... Not such as are brought up in houses, but which fly abroad in the air, wild; and are not supported by their own, or any human care, but by the care of God: Lu 12:24 particularly mentions the "ravens", referring probably to Psalms 147:9, and because they are very voracious creatures: and there it is said, "consider the ravens"; look attentively upon them, and with...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially in their expositions of the law (that was called their leaven, ch. xvi. 12), comes in this chapter to warn them against their corrupt practices, against the two sins which, though in their doctrine they did not justify, yet in their conversation they were...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Do you believe that, after all your earnest labour and your industry, God will permit you to starve, when these creatures, that labour not, yet are fed?