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Matthew 6:19-21

Matthew 6:19-21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

comes here only, but , have much in common with , . They are there in the middle of a long discourse (), which immediately follows the parable of the rich fool, itself spoken on the occasion when a man wished his brother to divide the inheritance with him.

There seems no reason to believe that that discourse is at all necessarily in historical position, and that our verses belong originally to it and to its occasion rather than to the present place in Matthew.

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