Luke 12:27
“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Consider the lilies how they grow,.... Some copies read, "the lilies of the field", as in Mat 6:28 The Persic version…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Luke 12:22-40
Our Lord Jesus is here inculcating some needful useful lessons upon his disciples, which he had before taught them, and…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
the lilies The term is perfectly general. The scarlet anemones (anemone coronaria), or the -Huleh lilies" growing around…
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