Passage

Food, drink and worry

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

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²⁹“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Luke 12:29World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The listeners are told not to seek what they will eat or drink, and not to be anxious.

To understand

Their Father’s knowledge of these needs is named in the teaching. It follows the image of God clothing grass that is in the field today and in the oven tomorrow.

A question

What does the passage say the Father knows about food and drink?