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Mat_6:19-34. Comp. Luk_12:33 f., Luk_11:34 ff., Luk_12:22 ff. The theme stated in Mat_6:1 is still pursued, and, without any formal indication of a transition, a new and essential point in the discourse is here introduced, viz. care about earthly things, which is treated (1) as striving after wealth, Mat_6:19-24, and (2) as care for food and raiment, Mat_6:25-34. To give up the idea of a fixed plan from this point onwards (de Wette), and especially to regard Mat_6:19-34 as an irrelevant interpolation (Neander, Bleek, Weiss), is quite unwarranted, for we must not lose sight of the fact that the discourse was intended not merely for the disciples, but for the people as well (Mat_7:28). The unity of the Sermon on the Mount is not that of a sermon in our sense of the word; but the internal connection of the thought in Mat_6:19 ff. with what goes before lies in the ἀποδώσει σοι just mentioned, and the object belonging to which is, in fact, the heavenly treasures.