Matthew 6:28

for raiment The birds are an example of God's care in providing food, the flowers of His care in providing apparel.

the lilies of the field identified by Dr Thomson (Land and Book, p. 256), with a species of lily found in the neighbourhood of Hûlêh. He speaks of having met with "this incomparable flower, in all its loveliness … around the northern base of Tabor, and on the hills of Nazareth, where our Lord spent His youth." Canon Tristram (Nat. Hist. of the Bible) claims this honour for the beautiful and varied anemone coronaria. "If in the wondrous richness of bloom which characterises the Land of Israel in spring any one plant can claim preeminence, it is the anemone, the most natural flower for our Lord to pluck and seize upon as an illustration, whether walking in the fields or sitting on the hill-side."