Jesus chides his disciples, calling them “you ‘little-faiths’ ” (v. 30, Phillips). The word used, oligopistos, occurs only five times in the New Testament, four of which are in Matthew. It describes the believer whose actual confidence in God falls short of what we could reasonably expect. The pagans of verse 32 are probably those unbelievers outside the circle of the disciples. Anxiety is pagan, in that, apart from a knowledge of the true God, there is ample reason to be anxious about many things.