Elder Jeffrey R. Holland wrote: “In a general sense these verses can apply to all believers, but at their most literal level they apply to those the Lord has called as his full-time witnesses. Most people must give some thought to what they will eat and what they will wear; the necessities of life require it. But the twelve disciples were not to do so, for they were chosen ‘to minister unto [the] people.’ Their call was to give complete devotion to their spiritual ministry and to trust in God’s—and the people’s—providence for their temporal needs” (Christ and the New Covenant, 264–65).