More than food and clothes

Jesus was speaking to people for whom food and clothing were no luxury. Many listeners were day labourers and smallholders. What you earned today, you ate tonight. A cloak was so valuable that the law said: if you have taken it as a pledge, give it back for the night. It was also someone's blanket.

It is to them, of all people, that he says: do not worry. That sounds almost cruel, until you follow his reasoning. God has already given you the greatest things: your life and your body. Would he be mean with the smaller ones?