Luke 12:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Are not five sparrows sold [i.e., in the market as food] for two coins? [Note: The coins here amount to just over one hour’s worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $10 in 2005]. Yet in the presence of God, not a [single] one of them is forgotten. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And [yet] not one of them is forgotten or uncared for in the presence of God. American Standard Version (1901) Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. Common English Bible Aren’t five sparrows sold for two small coins?Yet not one of them is overlooked by God. Catholic Public Domain Version Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? |
Are not two sparrows sold [in the market for food] for a small coin [Note: The coin mentioned here was worth about a half hour’s worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $4.50 in 2005]? And not a [single] one of them can fall to the ground without your Father [knowing about it].
A poor widow came and threw in two small copper coins [Note: These two coins each amounted to about ten minutes’ worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $1.50 in 2005]. The total she gave was equivalent to a larger coin [i.e., worth twice as much].
Look at the ravens; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop]; they do not have a storage locker or a barn, and [yet] God feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than those birds?
“Consider how [wild] lilies grow; they do not work or weave, yet I tell you, even Solomon, clothed in his very finest royal robes, was never dressed [as luxuriously] as one of these [flowers].