“Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry.
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.