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.

Cross References

Matthew 10:29

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].

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].

Luke 12:24

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?

Luke 12:27

“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].