Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

After ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them; then He broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples, and they gave them to the people.

Then He ordered them all to sit down in rows on the green grass.

But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, how much more surely will He clothe you, O you with little faith?

But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.

so that you with all God's people may be strong enough to grasp the idea of the breadth and length, the height and depth,

in this way amassing for themselves the riches that forever endure in the life to come, so that at last they may grasp the life that is life indeed.

and the rich brother rejoice in his being on a level with the poor, because the rich will fade away like the flower of the grass.

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and its flowers wither, and its beauty fades away; so will rich men fade away in their pursuits.

For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off.

The first one blew his trumpet, and there was a shower of hail and fire mixed with blood as it hurled itself upon the earth, and one-third of the earth was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

They were told not to injure the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.