Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
Who gives to the animal its food, And to the young ravens which call out.
Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
And a poor widow came and put in two lepta, which amount to a quadrans.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.