Matius 6:30
Konteks6:30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, 1 which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, 2 won’t he clothe you even more, 3 you people of little faith?
Matius 17:17
Konteks17:17 Jesus answered, 4 “You 5 unbelieving 6 and perverse generation! How much longer 7 must I be with you? How much longer must I endure 8 you? 9 Bring him here to me.”
[6:30] 1 tn Grk “grass of the field.”
[6:30] 2 tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.
[6:30] sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.
[6:30] 3 sn The phrase even more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.
[17:17] 4 tn Grk “And answering, Jesus said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.
[17:17] 5 tn Grk “O.” The marker of direct address, ὦ (w), is functionally equivalent to a vocative and is represented in the translation by “you.”
[17:17] sn The rebuke for lack of faith has OT roots: Num 14:27; Deut 32:5, 30; Isa 59:8.
[17:17] 8 tn Or “put up with.” See Num 11:12; Isa 46:4.
[17:17] 9 sn The pronouns you…you are plural, indicating that Jesus is speaking to a group rather than an individual.