Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:”
- Date
- 1611
- Local voice
- Reported speaker · Jesus
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “Consider the lilies of the field, how they…”
Attention is directed to ordinary flowers as a corrective to anxious preoccupation, making observation itself part of the teaching about worry.
Where does it come from?
Matthew 6:28, King James Version; Jesus points listeners to the lilies while discussing anxiety about clothing and material provision.
Why the local voice matters
Matthew 6:28 in the King James Version preserves this wording as reported speech. The biblical passage remains the textual source while Jesus is stored as the local reported speaker.
