Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.
Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
He gives to the animals their food and to the young ravens when they cry.
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.