Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
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Gill's Exposition
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings,.... As two were sold for one farthing; see Gill on Mat 10:29; so in buying and selling, where more money is laid out, things are bought cheaper; the…
Nothing covered - See the notes at Mat 10:26-32. Luk 12:3 Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops - See the notes at Mat 10:27. The custom of making proclamation from the tops or roofs of houses still…
Adam Clarke
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? - See this explained on Mat 10:29 (note), from which place we learn that two sparrows were sold for one farthing, and here; that five were sold for two…
We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their…
Cambridge Bible
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings St Matthew says -twosparrows for onefarthing." The little birds were sold in the markets strung together, or on skewers. The varying expressions of St…
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