Matthew 10:29 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁹ 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 versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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)

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:

Common English Bible

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.

Matthew 10:29 Cross References

Matthew 5:26

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 6:26

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?

Mark 12:42

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].