Luke 12:33

"“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom."

Key Reflection

This verse reassures believers that despite their small number and earthly vulnerability, they are valued by God as His children, destined to inherit the Kingdom. Jesus emphasizes both the security in knowing God's loving care and the great privilege of participating in His eternal reign.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 33. Sell that ye have. Sell your property. Exchange it for that which you can use in distributing charity. This was the condition of their being disciples. Their property they gave up; they forsook it, or they put it into common stock, for the sake of giving alms to the poor, Ac 2:44; 4:32; Joh 12:6; Ac 5:2. Bags which wax not old. The word bags, here, means purses, or the bags attached to their girdles, in which they carried their money. See Barnes "Mt 5:38". By bags which wax not old Jesus means that we should lay up treasure in heaven; that our aim should be to be prepared to enter there, where all our wants will be for ever provided for. Purses, here, grow old and useless.

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