It is true when I say to you; you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin. [Note: The coin mentioned here amounted to about ten minutes’ worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $1.50 in 2005].
Matthew 10:29 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) 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]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Are not two little sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave (consent) and notice. American Standard Version (1901) Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father: Common English Bible Aren’t two sparrows sold for a small coin? But not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father knowing about it already. Catholic Public Domain Version Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. |
It is true when I say to you; you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin. [Note: The coin mentioned here amounted to about ten minutes’ worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $1.50 in 2005].
Look at the birds in the sky; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop] or store [things] in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than they are?
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].