Matthew 10:29
New International Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.

New Living Translation
What is the price of two sparrows—one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.

English Standard Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Berean Standard Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

Berean Literal Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

King James Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

New King James Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

New American Standard Bible
Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

NASB 1995
“Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

NASB 1977
“Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Legacy Standard Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Amplified Bible
Are not two little sparrows sold for a copper coin? And yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Christian Standard Bible
Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.

American Standard Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny, and not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father?”

Contemporary English Version
Aren't two sparrows sold for only a penny? But your Father knows when any one of them falls to the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.

English Revised Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

Good News Translation
For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent.

International Standard Version
"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

Literal Standard Version
Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father;

Majority Standard Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

New American Bible
Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.

NET Bible
Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

New Revised Standard Version
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

New Heart English Bible
"Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

Webster's Bible Translation
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.

Weymouth New Testament
Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.

World English Bible
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Young's Literal Translation
'Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Fear God Alone
28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. 30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.…

Cross References
Matthew 5:26
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns--and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Mark 12:42
Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.


Treasury of Scripture

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

two.

Luke 12:6,7
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? …

farthing.

Matthew 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

and one.

Psalm 104:27-30
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season…

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Matthew 10
1. Jesus sends out his apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles;
5. giving them their charge, teaches them;
16. comforts them against persecutions;
40. and promises a blessing to those who receive them.














(29) Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?--The coin mentioned here is not the same as the "farthing" of Mark 12:42. The word there is kodrant?s, the quadrans, or fourth part, of the Roman as; here it is assarion, the diminutive of the as, and equal to the tenth part of the denarius. The fact that the denarius was the average day's wages of a soldier or a labourer, gives a fair approximation to its value. The homeliness of the illustration was adapted to the past experience of the apostles. It appears in a yet more homely form, in the "five sparrows sold for two farthings" of Luke 12:6, the cheapness that thus tempted the purchaser witnessing to the small account men took of the birds so bargained for.

Without your Father.--The primary thought is obviously that the providence of God extends to the very meanest of His creatures. The thoughts with which we in these later days are more familiar may lead us to think of that Providence as more commonly working under the form of fixed and general laws; but, however this may be, the truth remains unaltered, for law itself is but the expression of the will of God, and faith may accept the law as working out a divine purpose of good for the universe and for every free agent who consciously accepts it.

Verse 29. - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? The form of the saying in Luke 12:6 is practically equivalent ("Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings?"); for sparrows are so common and cheap that if a man buys two farthings' worth he gets one thrown in. "At the present day the markets of Jerusalem and Jaffa are attended by many 'f owlets,' who offer for sale long strings of little birds of various species, chiefly sparrows, wagtails, and larks. These are also frequently sold ready plucked, trussed in rows of about a dozen on slender wooden skewers, and are cooked and eaten like kabobs" (Tristram, in Smith's 'Dict. of Bible,' 3:1366, where is added an into-resting account of the various methods of catching them). A farthing (ἀσσαρίου). This might either be one of the coins of the Herods (ver. 9, note), or, as it seems, a "second brass" Antiochene as (cf. Madden, 'Coins of the Jews,' p. 301, etc.). And one of them shall not fall - and not one of them shall fall (Revised Version, more idiomatically) - on the ground. Dead. In the parallel passage in Luke, more generally, "Not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God," even in life. Origen and Chrysostom read, "fall into the snare" (cf. Ames 3:5). Without (ἄνευ). Ξωρίς would deny merely physical connexion (cf. John 15:5), and the sentence would then imply that God causes their death; ἄνευ is only negative, and the sentence implies that their death is not outside of his knowledge and care. In Amos 3:5 the thought is that for every event there is a cause; here that every event is taken notice of by God. Sennacherib's boast (Isaiah 36:10) contained a truth other than he intended. Your Father. For this and nothing less is God's relation to you. There is a Talmudic tale told in various forms, of which the earliest seems to be that R. Simon ben Jochai, after hiding thirteen years in a cave, saw from the entrance of it a fowler snaring birds, but that these could not be taken if the Divine voice (Bath Qol) said, "Released" (dimus,' dimissus). "A bird," said the rabbi, "perishes not without God, much less a man," and he returned to the city (Talm. Jeremiah, 'Shebiith,' 9:1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Are} not
Οὐχὶ (Ouchi)
IntPrtcl
Strong's 3780: By no means, not at all. Intensive of ou; not indeed.

two
δύο (dyo)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1417: Two. A primary numeral; 'two'.

sparrows
στρουθία (strouthia)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4765: A small bird, sparrow. Diminutive of strouthos; a little sparrow.

sold
πωλεῖται (pōleitai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4453: To sell, exchange, barter. Probably ultimately from pelomai; to barter, i.e. To sell.

for a penny?
ἀσσαρίου (assariou)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 787: A small coin equal to the tenth part of a drachma. Of Latin origin; an assarius or as, a Roman coin.

Yet
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

not
οὐ (ou)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

one
ἓν (hen)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

of
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Neuter 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

will fall
πεσεῖται (peseitai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4098: A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall.

to
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

ground
γῆν (gēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1093: Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe.

apart from the will
ἄνευ (aneu)
Preposition
Strong's 427: Without, without the cooperation (or knowledge) of. A primary particle; without.

of your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Father.
Πατρὸς (Patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.


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