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].

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].