Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God.
He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia.
Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
But when one poor widow had arrived, she put in two small coins, which is a quarter.
Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap; there is no storehouse or barn for them. And yet God pastures them. How much more are you, compared to them?
Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither work nor weave. But I say to you, not even Solomon, in all his glory, was clothed like one of these.