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.
Truly I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last fraction of a penny.
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?
And a widow who was poverty-stricken came and put in two copper mites [the smallest of coins], which together make half of a cent.