What Does Matthew 6:30 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The grass is clothed even with its ending in view, so a brief life is not evidence of being overlooked.
THE MEANING
The grass is covered while its disappearance is already known, and the verse places your life within that greater care. The “much more” turns the comparison toward you even when tomorrow feels uncertain.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that uncertainty about tomorrow means you are already abandoned to it.
THE ROOT
ὀλιγόπιστοι
oligopistoi
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust and reliance; leaning confidence upon someone.
“little faith” in this verse is oligopistoi. Here ὀλιγόπιστοι (oligopistoi) means “little-trusting ones”: the smallness belongs to the reader’s trust. The verse sets that small trust beside care that clothes even grass whose ending is already in view.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: Trust, entrust.
πιστεύω
This verb shows the same root as trust actively placed in someone, rather than an abstract idea held in the mind.
pistos: Firm, steady.
πιστός
This branch brings steadiness into the word family, echoing the care the verse presents as already at work.
THE PATTERN
Care reaches vulnerable life through covering and continued provision.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.THE THREAD
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?Luke repeats the Greek verb ἀμφιέννυμι (amphiennymi, clothe) and the term ὀλιγόπιστοι (oligopistoi, little-trusting ones). The repeated pairing holds the grass’s brief life and small trust beside care that is already clothing it.
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