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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們想想烏鴉：牠們不種也不收，無倉又無庫，　神尚且養活牠們；你們比飛鳥貴重得多了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 想 乌 鸦 ， 也 不 种 也 不 收 ， 又 没 有 仓 又 没 有 库 ， 神 尚 且 养 活 他 。 你 们 比 飞 鸟 是 何 等 的 贵 重 呢 ！

Contextual Overview

²² Jesus said to his followers, "So I tell you, don't worry about the food you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. ²³ Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. ²⁴ Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest, they don't have storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you are worth much more than birds. ²⁵ You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. ²⁶ If you cannot do even the little things, then why worry about the big things? ²⁷ Consider how the lilies grow; they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. ²⁸ God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So how much more will God clothe you? Don't have so little faith! ²⁹ Don't always think about what you will eat or what you will drink, and don't keep worrying. ³⁰ All the people in the world are trying to get these things, and your Father knows you need them. ³¹ But seek God's kingdom, and all your other needs will be met as well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the ravens: The raven is a species of the corvus, or crow tribe, of the order Picז, known by its large size, its plumage being of a bluish black, and tail roundish at the end. It was probably selected by our Lord as being unclean. 1 Kings 17:1-6, Job 38:41, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Psalms 147:9, Mark 6:26

how: Luke 12:7, Luke 12:30-32, Job 35:11, Matthew 10:31

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:15 - General Deuteronomy 28:8 - storehouses Psalms 50:11 - know Psalms 104:27 - General Matthew 6:26 - the fowls Matthew 12:12 - is a Luke 12:6 - and Luke 12:27 - the lilies 1 Corinthians 9:9 - Doth Hebrews 9:14 - How

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Consider the ravens,.... According to the Jews k there are three sorts of ravens, the black raven, the raven of the valley, which is said to be white, and the raven whose head is like a dove. In Matthew the "fowls of the air" in general are mentioned, as they are here in the Cambridge copy of Beza's; but in others, "the ravens" in particular, they being fowls of very little worth, and disregarded by men, and odious to them, as well as unclean by the law; and yet these are taken care of by God. The Arabic version reads, "the young ravens"; and these are which are said to cry unto God, who provides food for them, and gives it to them,

Job 38:41

for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and yet they are provided for, and therefore, why should men, and especially God's own people, distrust his providence over them, when they both sow and reap, have the seedtime, and harvest in the appointed seasons: they cast their seed into the earth, and it springs up and brings forth much fruit, which they reap when ripe, and gather into their barns and storehouses, from whence they are supplied till another season returns; wherefore they have no reason to distress themselves, seeing, though this is not the case of ravens, yet

God feedeth them; their young ones, as the above places show. Jerom says l, that it is affirmed by some philosophers, that they live upon dew. The Jews m have a notion, that the old ravens being cruel to their young, and hating them, the Lord has pity on them, and prepares flies, or worms for them, which arise out of their dung, and enter into their mouths, and they them. One of their commentators says n, when the young ones are hatched they are white, and the old ones leave them, not taking them for their own, and therefore bring them no food, and then they cry to God; and this is mentioned by some Christian writers, but not sufficiently confirmed: and another of them observes o, that the philosophers of the Gentiles say, that the ravens leave their young as soon as they are hatched; but what Aristotle p, Pliny q, and Aelianus r affirm of these creatures is, that as soon as they are able to fly they turn them out of their nests, and even drive them out of the country where they are; when, as it is said in Job, "they wander for lack of meat, and cry unto God, who gives it to them": and since this is the case, and the providence of God is so much concerned for such worthless creatures, the people of God, and disciples of Christ, ought by no means to distrust it: for as it follows,

how much more are ye better than the fowls: or "than these", as the Vulgate Latin version reads; that is than these ravens, or any other fowls whatever; Job 38:41- :.

k T. Bab. Cholin, fol. 63. 1. l Comment. in Job xxxviii. 41. & in Psal. cxlvii. 9. m Jarchi in Job xxxviii. 41. & in Psal. cxlvii. 9. & Kimchi in lb. n Kimchi ib. Vid. T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 49. 2. & Gloss. in ib. o Aben Ezra in Psal. cxivii. 9. p Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 31. q Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 12. r De Animal. Natura, l. 2. c. 49.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:25-33.