But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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Gill's Exposition
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered,.... Not only their persons had passed under the hands of him that telleth them, who is the "Palmoni", or "wonderful numberer", as in the margin…
Nothing covered - See the notes at Mat 10:26-32. Luk 12:3 Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops - See the notes at Mat 10:27. The custom of making proclamation from the tops or roofs of houses still…
Adam Clarke
Fear not therefore - Want of faith in the providence and goodness of God is the source of all human inquietudes and fears. He has undertaken to save and defend those to the uttermost who trust in him.…
We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their…
Cambridge Bible
even the very hairs of your head See Luk 21:18; Act 27:34; and in the O. T. 1Sa 14:45; 1Ki 1:52.
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