Matthew 6:26

The phrase οὐχ μᾶλλον διαφέρετε αὐτῶν, taken grammatically, is a declarative negation of a comparative statement and thus denies the existence of distinction: “You do not differ more than they” or “You are not better than they are.”

However, as is frequent in both Classical and Koine Greek, such constructions may function rhetorically as interrogatives without formal syntactic markers. In such cases, the phrase would be understood as: “Do you not differ more than they?”—a question expecting an affirmative answer. The interpretive shift depends on the broader literary or dialogic context.