“(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. The Gentile comparison: the people who do not know the Father as Father are driven by anxiety about provision because they have no Father to provide. The disciples have the Father — the heavenly Father who knows what they need before they ask (verse 8). The Gentile anxiety is not irrational given their theological situation; the disciple's anxiety is irrational given theirs. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all — the complete knowledge and the parental care combine to make anxiety both theologically wrong and practically unnecessary.
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